2304 Birds — Reptiles. 



with seven bars of dark brown, the tip white, the two centre leathers being longest, 

 and the two next longer than the rest ; chin white ; neck, throat and breast ash-brown, 

 each feather on the throat and breast having the centre brown ; belly, vent and centre 

 feathers of the under tail -coverts white, outside ones barred with dark brown, shafts 

 black ; legs and toes dark green. From the carpal joint to the end of the first quill- 

 feather, which is the longest, five inches ; heels, including the claw, three-eighths of 

 an inch ; tail two inches. I give the length of the legs, and the colour of the beak, 

 hides, legs and toes, from the statement of Mr. G. Thomas, who had the bird the 

 day on which it was shot. I could not obtain the whole length of the bird, as the di- 

 mensions, except of the legs, were not taken till after it was mounted, and I did not 

 see it till lately. — Nicholas Cooke ; Hope Mills, Warrington, September 28, 1848. 



[" I should suppose the bird to be the wood sandpiper (Totanus glareola) : the words 

 ' from the carpal joint to the end of the first quill-feather, which is the longest, five 

 inches,' are the exact words used by Yarrell in his account of T. glareola, and the 

 general description applies to this species, although many of them are very similar in 

 markings : Henry Doubleday," whose opinion I solicited. — Edward NeivmanJ] 



Occurrence of the Red-throated Diver (Colymbus septentrionalis) near Guildford. 

 — A specimen of the red-throated diver was captured yesterday near Guildford, and 

 has been brought here to be preserved : this is an addition to the list of Surrey birds. 

 — J. D. Salmon; Godalming, October 19, 1848. 



Occurrence of the Ivory Gull (Larus eburneus) at Hastings. — I saw a specimen of 

 this rare bird at Hastings, a few weeks ago, in the possession of a bird-stuffer, who in- 

 formed me that it was shot near that place not long since. — J. B. Ellman; Battel, 

 September 23, 1848. 



Answer respecting Larus maximus. — Dr. Morris is quite correct (Zool. 2071), when 

 he presumes that by black-backed gull (L. maximus), (Zool. 515) is meant the 

 lesser black-backed gull (L.fusca). I beg to thank Dr. M. for pointing out the mis- 

 take. — G. Gordon; Elgin, October, 1848. 



Note on the Natterjack (Bufo calamita) and Tree Frog (Hyla arborea). — I observed 

 the young of the natterjack (distinguishable when quite small by the narrow stripe of 

 gamboge-yellow along the back) sparingly, on short heath, at Oakhanger, near Sel- 

 borne, and much more abundantly the next day about the edges of Wolmer Pond, in 

 September last. The son of the head keeper, who lives close by the pond, assured me 

 that these toads were very noisy in the spring and summer nights, at which seasons 

 they resort to the water for the purpose of breeding, and near which the young ones 

 continue for some time after their transformation from the tadpoles, when the adults 

 have retired to drier situations, and dispersed themselves abroad, as I did not meet with 

 a full or even half-grown individual at either station. I remarked the natterjack in 

 plenty last year, about the margin of Peat Pond, on Shalford Common, Surrey (Mr. 

 Salmon's second English station for Cyperus fuscus), and transported a colony of a 

 hundred or more youthful toads to a congenial-looking sandy heath in this island ; but 

 what lias been their fate since, I have not had the means of ascertaining. I may take 

 occasion to mention in this place that I last year turned out eighteen examples of the 



