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white spotted form generally occurred, the red spotted 
never (he added), which tallies with a statement of M. Marin, 
of Lille (formerly of Metz) to my father. 
He told me the names of four species which were not 
included by Fournel (1, c.), but of which he had stuffed 
specimens, The Spoonbill (imature, killed at Forbach), 
Purple Sandpiper,* Grey Phalarope, and Double Snipe 
(twice). 
Fanuary 16th, At the market, Common Buzzard, Hazel 
Grouse, Reed Bunting, Yellow Hammer, Goldfinches, Green- 
finches, Linnets, and many Bramblings. I bought the 
Buzzard for two “sous.” It had been killed at Sarbruck, 
and frozen as stiff as a board. After being thawed in a 
portable cooking-stove it made a good skin. It was very 
rufous on the under-parts. I did not think much of this 
market, but M. Buchillot told me he had obtained there 
the Meadow Bunting (Zmberiza cia), and other good birds 
occasionally. 
20th. .Called again on my friend the birdstuffer, and 
found him in the act of skinning a Whooper Swan,f one of 
a pair just sent in from Auboué. They were very plentiful 
about this time in England, véde Zoologist (ss., 2601). 
21st. Two dead Barn Owls shown to me; _ identical 
with the English white-breasted kind. I have good reason 
for believing that the fulvous variety figured in Rowley’s 
“Miscellany” occurs. Fournel says they eat bats (1. c,, 
p. 102); so does Dr. Altum. 
© I have shot the Purple Sandpiper at Blakeney, in Norfolk, with 
down adhering to the neck, but there was no reason to suppose it was 
bred there. 
t+ Among the numbers of Whoopers which I have seen, for the most 
part hanging up in markets, I have very seldom seen a cygnet, and 
never a Bewick’s cygnet. My father, however, has bought a Bewick’s 
cygnet in the market at Norwich. 
