2018 Birds. 



on the breast of tire white-fronted goose, but somewhat less decided. About the mid- 

 dle of the month a rough-legged buzzard, in the plumage (probably) of the second or 

 third year, was trapped at Bretenham, near Thetford, in this county, and is still kept 

 alive : we have not heard of the occurrence of any other specimens. The young birds 

 appear to be decidedly more gregarious than the more adult. The mealy redpole has 

 been abundant during the month, and the commoner species of wild-fowl have occurred 

 in the usual abundance. The great gray shrike has also occurred at Carrow. — J. H. 

 Gurney, W. R. Fisher ; December, 1847. 



I am sorry that I made a rather important mistake in copying the " Ornithological 

 Notices in Norfolk for November, 1847," (Zool. 1966). The bird captured at West- 

 wick was not the ■ white-headed ' but the ' white-tailed ' eagle (H. albicilla). — W. R. 

 Fisher ; January, 1848. 



Provincial Names of Birds. — I beg to enclose a list of a few provincial names of 

 birds in this neighbourhood : they are all with which I am at present acquainted. 



ChifF-chaflF. — Featherpoke : on account of its nest being lined with feathers. Poke 

 is the Yorkshire word for a sack. 



Wood-warbler. — Small straw. 



Chaffinch. — Spink. 



Yellow Bunting. — Yolering : most probably a corruption of gold ring. 



Starling. — Shepster. 



Magpie. — Pienet. 



Wren. — Peggy. — /. S. Webb ; Huddersjield, November 6, 1847. 



Dates of the Arrival of Migratory Birds at Aylsham in 1847. — I beg to forward for 

 insertion in the ' Zoologist' a few notes of the appearance, &c, of birds this year. 

 My observations were principally made near Aylsham. 



Swift. May 6. 



House Martin. May 1. 



Sand Martin. April 27. 



Swallow. April 30. 



Greater Pettychaps. April 30. 



Redstart. April 26. 



Yellow Wagtail. Prior to April 28. 



Cuckoo. May 5. 



Redbreast. Young left nest May 4. 



Fieldfare. Last seen April 20. 



Song Thrush. Eggs, April 4. 



Rook. Hatched prior to April 14. 



Hooded Crow. Last seen March 24. 



By these few notes it may be seen, that although many of our summer birds arrived 

 early, yet the fieldfare and hooded crow remained veiy late, if the periods given for 

 their usual departure in Mr. Jenyn's calendar are correct. The cuckoo was not heard 

 by myself before May 5, but I was told by others that they had heard it a fortnight 

 previously. — H. T. Frere ; Blofield, November 17, 1847. 



Gyr Falcon : Mistranslation in a former Number of the l Zoologist.' — I wish to call 

 the attention of the readers of the * Zoologist ' to a mistranslation of a word in the 

 passage from Professor Tschudi's work quoted in the ' Zoologist' (Zool. 1806). The 

 word rendered ' gyr-falcon ' is doubtless ' geyer-falke,' — ' vulture-hawk.' A very dif- 

 ferent bird from the Falco Gyrfalco, and the observations made upon the habits of 



