ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES. By G. BOLAM 105 



locality, a favourite feeding ground being by the sides of 

 the Powburn, where it passes Hedgeley. On 7th December 

 1899, I flushed a specimen on the links at Cheswick Cottage; 

 on 31st July 1896, one was feeding by the side of the 

 Whitadder, at Canties' Bridge ; and another was seen on 

 the Lowe, near Beal, on 18th November 1897. 



Knot. Tringa canutus, Linn. 



On 13th January 1898, I was agreeably surprised to receive 

 a very fine specimen of this bird, which had already assumed 

 nearly three-quarters of its breeding plumage. It had been 

 shot upon the slakes, at Fenham, on the previous day. The 

 mildness of the season, in the early spring of that year, 

 will be remembered, but still it was very soon for this bird 

 to be changing: into its summer dress. 



Spotted Crake. Porzana maruetta (Leach.) 



My brother shot one on Yarrow Slake on 15th October 

 1896, and another was killed on the Tweed, not far from 

 the same place, on 28th September 1898. 



White-fronted Goose. Anser alhifrons (Scopoli.) 



I purchased for my collection a nice specimen of this 

 goose, which had been shot near Newton-by-the-Sea, on 9th 

 October 1898. It is only at uncertain intervals that this 

 species seems to visit us. 



Bernacle Goose. Bernicla leucopsis (Bechstein.) 



Of late years this species has shown a disposition to visit 

 the neighbourhood of Holy Island, with considerably more 

 regularity than used formerly to be the case. On 2nd 

 October 1897, one was killed out of a flock of thirteen or 

 fourteen, and on the 10th of the same month, in the fol- 

 lowing year, four were shot with a punt gun out of a flock 

 of about twenty, which had appeared that day on the slake ; 

 



