ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES. By G. BOLAM 103 



February to 25th March in that year, where also a single 

 bird was seen on 13th May, and another on 19th of the 

 same month. 



Black Grouse. Tetrao Tetrix, Linn. 



In 1898, I got a most interesting example of a Greyhen 

 assuming the male dress, which was killed near Chillingham. 

 The breast and under parts were very black, but there was 

 a good deal of dark brown freckling upon some of the 

 feathers, especially about the flanks ; the black upon the 

 neck, and part of the back, was full and glossy, and the 

 comb over the eye was as bright and large as in a male. 



Dotterel. Eudromias morinellus (Linn.) 



I saw a beautiful specimen which had been shot at 

 Cullercoats, on 25th June 1898, and several were killed 

 about the same time on Newbiggin Moor, their skins being 

 sent to Newcastle for fly-dressing. One was picked up, 

 near Beal, in July 1899. 



Snipe. Gallinago ccelestis (Frenzel.) 



On 24th November 1898, I examined a very dark coloured 

 Snipe, which had been brought in by a local shooter, some 

 days before, to one of the game shops in Berwick. All 

 the upper parts, and especially the rump and tail-coverts, 

 were very dark, but the lower parts were white as usual. 

 It was unfortunately too much damaged to be worth 

 preserving. 



On 2nd November 1898, during the prevalence of a very 

 high south-westerly wind, I flushed a wisp of 16 Snipe from 

 the rocks, near low-water mark, on Holy Island. There were 

 at the same time upon the rocks, five Field Fares, about a 

 dozen Snow Buntings, and several Larks and Grey-backed 

 Crows, all of which had no doubt just arrived from over 

 the sea. 



