312 NOTES—ORNITHOLOGY. 
but consigned to the comparative oblivion of a note in ‘The 
Manual’ (1889), ‘until some trustworthy person can produce a 
specimen ’—a very proper exercise of caution. There is no reason 
why it should not sometimes cross the Atlantic as other American 
Sandpipers do, and as it has no spots its first autumn it would not 
be easily recognised if a bird of the year, except by the browner 
colour of its secondary quills. Zringa maculata, the Pectoral Sand- 
piper, which has been shot more often in the British isles than any 
other American member of the family, has generally turned up in 
immature plumage. Of the eight Norfolk-billed Pectoral Sandpipers 
seven have been young ones. 
At the same time it is worth pointing out that Mr. William 
Brewster considers that the Spotted Sandpiper ‘is conspicuous 
among [American] Scolopacidee for its comparatively feeble, restricted 
powers of flight” not that this quality acts as any deterrent in the 
case of Porphyrios Crakes and Moorhens, which fly over the sea 
with the greatest ease. 
ue ae ORNITHOLOGY. 
Shoveller y be worth ne that we shot a female 
Shoveller Duck ‘ ueataes csp) here on the 5th. The bird was a young one. 
here was a second at the e, which got away. on. D. AsH, Skipwith 
Vicarage, Selby, Sep. 16th, 
lamborough Bird- Noten, cree U rapiei ig of Terns or Sea Swallows 
have been = een along our coast this seaso oth Common and Arctic (Sterna 
oe S. ma scl se spect Sandwich Terns (5S. COs = 
ird. umbers of Skuas have also made their appearance, which give chase to 
the Sea Swallows and Kitti wakes (Rissa iors 4 when locdlng. to their of 
annoyance.—MATTHEW BaILky, Flamborough, Sep. 16th, 1895. 
borough Bird-notes.—Arrivals of Autumnal Immigrants.—The 
t I have seen of a come arrivals — — . — eesiendt dng on 
: s of Larks 
‘shuren grote Blackbirds ds (Turdus. logis Thrushes (7. mUustcUs), sea 
i) ny 
a swarm of bees; in fact the rocket-house keeper informs me of a bird flying 
—, the a of a rocket signal station with such force that when aren up 
it was dead said that W: oodcocks (Scolopax rusticola), had ar ved on 
raging. Yesterday morning, when of our herring boats was returning a 
the fishing ground, a Storm Petrel ‘{Precellivia ty flew on board in 48 
an exhausted condition. The fishermen =) that they could heer during the ees 
night swarms of birds coming in from the sea making for the Headlan and.— 
MATTHEW BAILey, a Oct. 16th, 1895. 
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