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the reeds and evidently longing for our departure. I regret 

 to say that the next time I saw this Grebe it was lying dead 

 in a bird-stuffer's shop, and I was told whence it had come 

 and who had brought it — facts which have since been fully 

 corroborated. I had hoped that it would have been left in 

 peace to establish a family, and greatly deplored its death. 

 I was cheered, however, to learn the following year (1909) 

 that one or two pairs had appeared on the same loch, but 

 soon afterwards heard that the nests had been ruthlessly 

 robbed by a private egg-collector." 



Mr. Ogilvie-Grant said that the Slavonian Grebe had 

 been said to nest on some freshwater lochs near Gairloch 

 in Ross-shire, but that according to Mr. A. H. Evans the 

 identification was incorrect, and the birds were the Little 

 Grebe (P.fluviatilis) {cf. Ann. Scot. N. H. 1892, p. 171). 

 There is also some evidence that it bred in Benbecula in 

 1893; two were shot in full summer-plumage in Barra in 

 April 1898 (/. c. 1903, p. 21) ; and one at Arisaig, Inverness, 

 on the 13th of May, 1907 (t. c. 1908, p. 207). 



Dr. C. B. Ticehurst exhibited a specimen of the Corsican 

 Woodchat-Shrike, and made the following remarks : — 



" This Woodchat (Lanius senator badius, Hartl.) was shot 

 by a shepherd in Romney Marsh, Kent, on the 29th of June, 

 1909, and was given to Mr. Bristow, of St. Leonard's, 

 on the following day. On the 1st of July the latter, who 

 regarded it as a specimen of the Common Woodchat, 

 showed it to me in the flesh. It was still fresh and had 

 evidently been shot. It proved to be a male. The very 

 noticeable absence of any white speculum at the base of the 

 primaries at once attracted my attention. Having compared 

 it with specimens of the Corsican Woodchat from Corsica 

 and with the Common Woodchat, I have no doubt that it 

 is an example of the former, the above distinction, as well 

 as the stouter bill and rather longer wing, being characteristic 

 features of L. badius. This is the first instance of the 

 occurrence of this bird in Great Britain, and, I believe, also 

 of its occurrence outside its somewhat indefinitely known 



