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Food of Little notice Mr. Cordeaux eanpcomeg April, p. 118), 
speaking of Little Aus (ergata msc) says, ‘In no case that I can ascertain was 
any sort of food f the the Je ether bird.’ The specimen 
C and wis h I dissected and stuffed, 8 ae 
eeding on small shrimps, the species we call ip this district ‘sand hop — 
H. T, ARCHER, Newcastle-on-Tyne, “Apal 4th, 1 
Dotterell at Scarborough.—On May be ares brought to me 
for aera a handsome adult female a Badromias marine) which 
t_the same morning at Weaverthorpe, a nine es fi 
Scarborough. It was in perfect pinmagts an aa on n di ssection the ovaries ere to 
contain well developed ¢, eggs. —WM. J. CLARKE, Scarborough, August 2nd, 1895. 
reat Skua (?) at Scarborough.—I note the record of this bird in the 
current number of ‘ The Naturalist.’ Is your correspondent sees sure of his bird. 
I had it reported that in November last ot have not the exa ys e) a Great Skua 
age icine =. am vu 
Grey sloping a SP ecg an Se em Ses by myself near Burlington, Sept. 
1859. I fir d pond. 
Spotted Sendchoe " Tringosdes pete This v gh are bird was shot by 
one of my sons in October thie flying ie a rush n pond near Kowl- 
stone in Holderness. This ce migrant of Gitke’s * « Birds of He — nd’ 
(chap. Migration) had no do on flown direct across the Atlantic—the 
from Newfoundland to Fahne (1,600 miles) being accomplished in favourable 
weather in nine or ten hours; the well-known Hood row, by no means 
. an flyer, according to repeated observations, taking about three hours 
o fly the 320 miles across the German Ocean from Ileligoland to North 
Hactnate, which is directly opposite. 
ge Rail (Ral/us aguaticus) shot near a ditch in Rowlstone by myself, 
I 
White Stork Cieonis nip shot on the top of a barn in Mappleton, Holderness, 
have just heard that ¢wo White Storks were lately shot by 
ol mckeepe at ‘chesterford Park, Essex. He thought they were Wild 
Gas. by thei 
germ vraag (Splat paradoxus), I saw in May 1891 a small flock of six 
r the cliff top at Rowlstone. Z to = ns at first, though 
niaaally late n the s pant for Golden Plov espondent in ‘The 
Field? in the rad ao week alluded xl thee i sinlanty of flight. I have 
a fine pair shot soon afterwards in Hol 
Parrakeet, small long-tailed. One oe in a small covert ved Rowlstone, 
ember, 
w 
and Abbie and ser sero exactly ie oung hawk. It had probably 
‘recently escaped from ng v 
Pied Flycatcher (Mtucicapa ‘avin ta) 7 found its nest in Janes ape 
seven igh in a yew tree, not far from water. Six eggs, ver 
Redsterts font not lined with fea Veal in a amg at Hallbank, Hull 
ee Feiops ( pri ane “og < i how of these birds were found dead or 
and fakes north, during the severe 
icked up in the vicar’s garden 
ae this cine 7 ne 9 apecianen — 
at Mappleton. Quail ( Coturnix coturnix). Many years ago I occasi ronlly 
shot one or two of these birds at Rowlstone beloes it was enclosed. 
A fine young Peregrine ore (Falco egrinus) was shot early this year 
near Row aden vie ee other, a very fi re ah id bird, was shot about the same 
date at Sutton near | ull. 
—B. B. Hawortu-Booru, Hullbank Hall, near Hull, August roth, 1895. 
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