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Curlew. Very common everywhere in Sutherlandshire, May 16 — 28. 



Heron. Sutherlandshire, Skye, May 20, 28. 



Redshank. Loch Naver, Sutherlandshire, May 20. 



Greenshank and eggs. Ditto. 



Snipe. Everywhere common, Sutherlandshire, May 16 — 27. 



Jack Snipe. Loch Naver, May 20. 



Gray-legged Goose and eggs. Loch Shin, Loch Assynt, Loch Naver, May 20—24. 



Bean Goose. Loch Laighall, May 19. 



Bean Teal. Ross-shire, Auchnasheen, May 26. 



Wigeon. Loch Naver, May 20. 



Golden-eye. Near Tongue, Loch Naver, May 18 — 20. 



Little Grebe. Loch Naver, May 20. 



Wild Duck. Very common. Young ones, May 20. 



Red-breasted Merganser. Between Loch Alsh and Skye, May 28. 



Northern Diver. Ditto. 



Red-throated Diver and egg. Tongue, May 20 ; Altrehara, May 18. 



Black-throated Diver. Loch Maddie, May 20 ; Loch Shin, May 18 ; Loch Argele, 

 Loch Altnagealgach, June 21. 



Black-headed Gull. Near Thurso, a colony, May 18. 



Great Black-backed Gull. Loch Laighall, Loch Shin, Loch Assynt, Loch Naver, 

 Loch Maddie, common. 



Lesser Black -backed Gull. Ditto. 



Kittiwake. Ditto. 



Common Gull. Ditto. 



Herring Gull. Ditto. 



Buffon's Skua. Bonar bridge, August, 1846. 



I might add what will perhaps be interesting to your readers, that on reaching In- 

 verness, on my way south, June 23, I was shown some specimens of the crested tit- 

 mouse, with some unblown eggs, taken a few days before from the pine woods of 

 Strathspey, where they are by no means uncommon. The boy who took them told me 

 they were always to be found in a hole of a tree highish up ; he took the female with 

 the nest and five eggs this year. The eggs are the size of those of the blue titmouse, 

 and like them in colour, with the addition of being more mottled on the larger end. — 

 W. M. E. Milner ; Nunappleton, Tadcaster, October 11, 1847. 



Ornithological Notices in Norfolk for the month of December, 1847. — The following 

 account has been furnished us of the attack observed to be made by a glaucous gull 

 upon a dead coot at Horsea, as mentioned in our last. The coot was shot as it rose 

 out of a reed-bush, and the gull, which with many others was flying over head at the 

 time, immediately pounced upon the former, and was killed while standing upon it. 

 Another specimen of the glaucous gull is said to have been killed at Blakeney, as also 

 an Iceland gull, and some examples of the pomarine skua. The waxwings mentioned 

 in our last to have been killed at Horsea were male and female, and their crops con- 

 tained berries, apparently of the whitethorn : on the 27th instant three more examples 

 of this species (two males and one female) were killed at Barnaby, near Lowestoft, a 

 fourth which was seen with them having escaped. We are indebted to Mr. Frere for 

 pointing out to us a somewhat curious feature in the specimen of the gray-legged 

 goose which we have mentioned as of recent occurrence in Norfolk, viz., the existence 

 of black markings about the belly and between the legs, much resembling those found 



