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the mayor, there is a bird which is now nearly as valuable as the Great 

 Auk — namely, a fine adult male of the extinct Labrador Duck (Camptolalmus 

 labradorius). It was unknown to Mr. Deutscher when compiling his list 

 of specimens (' The Auk,' vol. viii. p. 101), and will bring the number now 

 known to be in existence to forty-two, having very likely been one of those 

 sent to Europe by a birdstuffer at Brooklyn named John Akhurst (op. cit. 

 x. p. 270). The faded ticket, so far as I could make out, contains no 

 information beyond the bird's name ; but the former denizen of St. Lawrence 

 river is in excellent preservation. — J. H. Gurney (Keswick, Norwich). 



Sabine's Gull at Aberystwyth.— The late September gales brought 

 an unusual visitation of this species. During the three days Sept. 21th 

 to 26th six specimens were obtained a short distance to the south of this 

 town, while two or three more were noted. All were in immature plumage, 

 and passed into the possession of Mr. J. Hutchings, taxidermist, of this 

 place. — J. H. Salter (University College, Aberystwyth). 



Little Gull on the Solway Firth.— On Sept. 16th a juvenile example 

 of the Little Gull (Larus minutus) was brought to me by one of the Solway 

 wildfowlers. He had shot it the previous afternoon, whilst hovering over 

 the river Esk, in the immediate vicinity of the Solway Firth. On dissection 

 it proved to be a male. The stomach contained a single beetle. The 

 plumage of this specimen bears considerable resemblance to the nestliug 

 dress of the common Black-headed Gull (L. ridibundus). It is the fourth 

 local specimen of L. minutus which I have had the pleasure of adding to 

 the Carlisle Musenm, and is a useful addition to our little series of this 

 Gull. — H. A. Macpherson (Carlisle). 



Manx Shearwater in Warwickshire.— Just before the commencement 

 of the south-westerly gales, on Sept. 13th, an immature male Puffinw 

 anglorum was shot at Earlswood Reservoir, Warwickshire. This, I think, 

 is the second instance only on record of the occurrence of this bird in the 

 Midlands, the only other instance of which I have any knowledge being 

 one picked up exhausted in the Chandos Road, Edgbaston, within the 

 boundaries of the city of Birmingham, on Sept. 5th, 1880. — F. Coburn 

 (7, Holloway Road, Birmingham). 



White Stork in Warwickshire.— On Sept. 26th, the week of the 

 furious south-westerly gales, a young male Cico'nia alba was brought to 

 me alive. It had been captured at Beacon Hill, near Coleshill, Warwick- 

 shire, by a labouring man, who stated that he saw two Storks in a field. 

 His dog rushed towards them, when one flew away ; the other defended 

 itself from the attack of the dog, and while so engaged the man approached 

 and seized the bird. He clumsily cut the primaries of one wing to prevent 

 its escape. It was afterwards put into a dirty sack with a hole large enough 

 for its head to come through, consigned to a carrier, and in this condition 



