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A Toung bird was shot in September 1844 on tlie Exe estuary, where Mr. Ross 

 considered the Puffin to be very rare (MS. Journ. iv. p. 86). Mr. Cecil Smith met 

 with one or two off Exmouth in winter (' B. of Somerset, p. 553). 



Numerous Puffins nest on the Scilly Isles ; also along the Dorset coast, 

 where Mr. Mansel-Pleydell states that they appear " almost to a clay 

 during the last week in March.'' 



Puffins wander up the Bristol Channel, and are sometimes seen off the 

 Xorth Somerset coast. 



ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA. 



"White's Thrush (p. 6). — A second Cornish example was obtained on 

 the Scilly Isles early in December 1886 (T. Cornish, Zool. 1887, 

 p. 114). 



Ring-Ouzel (p. 8). — In Carrington's ' Dartmoor,' published in 1826, 

 the bird which appears to the members of the Oxenh am family before 

 death is described '• with a white crest." This is probably a misprint 

 for "white brest," as it is given in 'Familiar Letters' of James 

 Howell, from whence Carrington derived his information {cf. 11. W. 

 Cotton in Trans. Devon. Assoc, vol, xiv. (1882), p. 221). In his 

 ' History of Devonshire ' Mr. R. X. Worth has recorded a very recent 

 instance of the Oxenham " Omen." A loMte bird is said to have 

 appeared " outside the windows of a house in Kensington a week 

 before the death of Mr. G. N. Oxenham, then head of the family, in 

 1873. The bird refused for some minutes to be driven away, and a 

 sound like the fluttering of wings is stated to have been heard in the 

 bedroom." 



Wheatear (p. 9). — ^[r. E. A. S. Elliot sometimes meets with very 

 large males in his district. 



Black Redstart (p. J 2). — The young males, in their second year's 

 plumage, wlien the alar patch is verj' faintly indicated, were by 

 some ornithologists considered a distinct race, and were called 

 JitdiciUa cairii. It is said that they both sing and breed in this 

 plumage, and Mr. 0. V. Aplin has informed us that in Switzerland 

 they were to be found lower down on the mountains than the fuU- 

 plumaged adults, which keep very higli up. On account of the 

 valuable communications made by Mr. J. Gatcombe on the lilack 

 liedstart to the ' Zoologist ' and to various ornithological works, wo 

 have selected this species to be the subject of one of our plates, and 

 have figured an adult male, as well as a young male in the aiirii 

 dress, the latter taken from one sliot by ourselves towards the end of 

 March in our garden at Bishop's Lydeard, near Taunton. 



Lesser Whitethroat (p. 1^). — This species is marked as occurring at 

 ituusdun in Sir Henry Peek's Catalogue. 



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