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parative way what their experience is in the matter. — W. Ruskin Butterfield 

 (The School, Mercatoria, St. Leonards-on-Sea). 



Abundance of Little Auks in January, 1895. — As a supplement to 

 Mr. Aplin's notes oti this species, 1 may say that a Nottingham bird-stuffer 

 received over fifty little auks from the neighbourhood of Marske, in N.E. 

 Yorkshire, where they had been picked up dead on the beach. — F. B. 

 Whitlock. 



Spotted Eggs of Redstart. — A friend in Shropshire having reported a 

 nest of the Redstart containing eleven eggs, I wrote and asked him to send 

 them to me for inspection. I found them separable into six spotted ones 

 and five unspotted, the product evidently of two females. This is not the 

 first time I have seen spotted eggs of this species, but I have been interested 

 in finding similar rust-coloured spots on an egg of the Pheasant. — F. B. 

 Whitlock. 



Local Bird Names. — I have no doubt that a few Cleveland bird names 

 will prove acceptable, so here are a few of the commonest. A Blackbird is a 

 "Blackie"; a Thrush a "Throllie"; a Hedge -Sparrow a "Cuddy"; a 

 Chaffinch a " Spink ey " ; Rooks and Jackdaws are "Crows"; a Yellow 

 Bunting is a " Yellow Yowley " ; Blue Tits, Great Tits, Cole Tits, and even 

 Wood-Wrens, Willow-Wrens, and Chiffchaffs are "Tom Tits," simply 

 because they lay very little eggs. When a Robin nests in a bank it is a 

 "Bank-Lark."— C. Milburn (Russell Street, Middlesbro'). 



Owls' Pellets Wanted. — T should be much indebted to anyone who will 

 send me Owls' pellets, stating (if possible), the species to which they belong, 

 the locality, also whether there is game in the neighbourhood, and, if so, of 

 what sort. The amount of postage will be returned. — Lionel E. Adams 

 (77, St. Giles' Street, Northampton). 



White Variety of Bullfinch's Eggs. — Last year two boys brought me 

 some perfectly white eggs, which they bad found in a nest described by them 

 as a Bullfinch's. Never having heard of a white variety of the eggs of that 

 bird I was inclined to think the lads had made some mistake about the nest. 

 This year, however, the same lads found a similar nest in the same he Ige, 

 containing four eggs of exactly the same variety as those discovered last 

 year, though somewhat smaller in size. The bird was recognised by one of 

 the lads in flying off the nest of a Bullfinch, and the nest, which I have 

 seen, is unmistakably the work of that bird. I can find no record of this 

 pure white variety of Bullfinch's egg having occurred before. I may mention 

 a parallel case of an unusual variety of egg being laid, evidently by the same 

 bird, in two consecutive seas mis. A few years ago I found a Chaffinch's nest 



