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Zoologist' for October, 1895. On the same day an adult male Richardson's 

 Skua (Stercorarius crepidatus) was picked up at Westfield, about five miles 

 from Hastings. Its captor kept it alive for two days in a basket. It was in 

 the moult, but had one long tail-feather. A Pomatorhine Skua was shot on 

 the same day at Pett. Mr. Bristow, of St. Leonards, tells me he has had six 

 or more Grey Phalaropes brought in to be set up, one of which came from 

 Brightling, about fifteen or sixteen miles from the sea. I presume they 

 would all have been driven there by the effects of the south-west gale on 

 the 32nd inst. ~G. W. Bradshaw (Hastings). 



Ornithological Notes from Scarborough. — On July 10th I had 

 brought to me for identification an adult Hobby, which had been shot by a 

 gamekeeper near Scarborough. I had not the opportunity of dissecting 

 the specimen ; but from the size of the bird I should say it was a female. 

 It had the " hatching spot " on the abdomen strongly developed, and had 

 apparently been sitting at no distant date. During the recent stormy 

 weather a great migration of wading birds has taken place along the shore. 

 Many flocks of Dunlin, Sanderling, Knot, Turnstone, Redshank, Golden, 

 Green, Grey, and Ringed Plover were seen, some of them in great numbers. 

 Oystercatchers, Whimbrels, and Curlews were also abundant, together with 

 a few Bar-tailed Godwits. On August 27th I picked out of a bunch of 

 Dunlin which had been shot on the North Shore a very nice Curlew Sand- 

 piper, a bird of the year. On Sept. 1st an immature Little Stint was 

 obtained, and two more, one an adult bird, were shot in company with 

 Dunlin on Sept. 3rd. Another was obtained the following day, and a 

 Greenshank was shot, and two others observed, on the same date. A Turtle 

 Dove was obtained on the 7th, a bird which we do not usually see here. 

 On the 23rd an adult male Grey Phalarope, in partial winter plumage, was 

 shot while swimming in a quiet corner in Cayton Bay, about 2£ miles to 

 the south of Scarborough. On dissecting it I found the gullet and stomach 

 crammed with small maggots. On the same day I had two unknown birds 

 reported on Filey Brig, which were identified by the man who saw them as 

 being of this species on seeing the specimen in my possession ; whilst on the 

 North Shore a " web-footed Sandpiper," which was shot and subsequently 

 destroyed, probably also belonged to this species ; not, however, having seen 

 the birds, I should hesitate to record them definitely as Grey Phalaropes. 

 On Sept. 26th a strange sea-swallow was brought to me by a shore-shooter, 

 who had shot it on Scalby Ness, a little to the north of the town. It turned 

 out to be an immature White-winged Black Tern, in very nice condition. 

 On dissection the stomach proved to be full of large maggots; the sex was 

 indistinguishable. There are at present very large numbers of Common 

 and Arctic Terns in both North and South Bays, the Arctic species being 

 much more abundant than the others. — W. J. Clarke (44, Huntriss Row, 

 Scarborough). 



