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ham, fourteen miles from Yarmouth; three females and a male 

 shot. — H. Stevenson, the Field, June 20. 



June 8. A male shot on the Dunes at Yarmouth, and two 

 others seen. — Idem. 



June 9. About forty "flushed once or twice on the beach 

 at Horsey, near Yarmouth, returning each time to the same 

 spot, a sort of hollow in the sands." Fifteen were shot on the 

 10th, and two on the 11th. The birds in fine condition; their 

 crops filled with grass seed, sand, and fine pebbles. — Idem. 



June (?) 12. A single specimen killed near Balcombe, 

 Sussex. — The Field, June 20. 



June 1<>. A covey of thirteen or fourteen observed on a 

 rabbit warren by the sea-shore, near Drumbeg, Donegal. — 

 W. Sinclair, the Field, June 20th. Mr. Sinclair killed a male 

 and wounded a female on the following day. " The captive 

 seems quite contented, was curiously familiar from the first, 

 feeds freely on canary seed, grits, groundsel, etc., and is fond 

 of washing and splashing in a pan of water." — Idem, June 27. 



May — . " A flock of sixteen or seventeen Pallas's Sand- 

 grouse has remained in the salt-marshes near Teesmouth for 

 several weeks, and only quitted us last week. Three were shot 

 on the 13th ult.," and one subsequently, all males. "They 

 showed every disposition to settle here, but only owe tljeir 

 temporary security to their being taken by our gunners 

 for golden plover, which on the wing they somewhat re- 

 semble." — Rev. H. B. Tristram, June 15. The Field, 

 June 10. 



June 12. A pair killed at Horsey, Yarmouth. — A. "W. 

 Crichton, the Field, June 20. (These and another brace 

 were served up at the annual dinner of the Acclimatization 

 Society, July 1st, and were pronounced to be admirable by all 

 who had the good fortune to taste them.) 



June 7. A pair shot near Saffron Walden ; " the crops 

 contained nothing but tares, and the flesh, both in appearance 

 and flavour, was very like that of the common pigeon." — G. 

 Taylor, the Field, June 27. 



June — . One shot out of a covey of four within three miles 

 of York, and five from a covey of nineteen near Scarborough. — > 

 C. Wright, the Field, June 27. 



June 8. A male shot from a covey of ten or twelve near 

 Wick, Caithness. — H. Osborne, the Field, June 27. 



Juiu 2/9. A male and two females in very good condition 

 shot at Mersea, on the Essex coast, on somo ploughed land a 

 quarter of a mile from the sea-shore. "They seemed to como 

 direct across the German Ocean; I only saw the three. They 

 pitched down within thirty yards of myself and men." — Quoted 

 by C. K. Bree, M.D., in the Field, July 4. 



