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Occurrence of the Green Sandpiper near Beverley. — On the 11th of August last a 

 fine male specimen of the green sandpiper was shot on the river Hull, near Beverley ; 

 it was alone. On the 21st of that month a pair of green sandpipers, male and female, 

 were shot by Mr. J. Hudson, gamekeeper, of Leven, near Beverley, close to the village 

 of Leven, whilst feeding on the bank of a shallow stream or drain : they are now added 

 to my collection of British birds. On the 26lh of August a green sandpiper was seen 

 and fired at by Mr. Thomas Buckley, on the river Hull, near Beverley, the same 

 gentleman who shot the specimen obtained on the 11th instant. I imagined this bird 

 to be the female, paired to the bird shot on the 11th, as it was found near to the same 

 place where the male was killed. All the specimens were mature birds. — W. W. 

 Boulton ; Beverley, Yorkshire, August 31, 1863. 



Dates of Arrival of the Summer Birds, 1863. 



Saw willow wren. 

 Saw swallow, one or two. 

 Saw yellow wagtail. 



Heard and saw tree larks in great numbers. 

 Heard cuckoo. 

 Heard corn crake. 



Heard sedge warbler. This year there has been quite an influx of 

 this species here. They are said to frequent marshy and reedy places mostly, but 

 they have been common in almost every hedge and coppice quite away from water. 



May 12. Saw redstart. This bird generally arrives about the 20th of April. 

 The redstart is less common than it used to be. I can talk to old men who have not 

 seen one for twenty years. 



May 16. Found a lesser whitethroat's nest, with eggs. 



„ 31. Saw flycatcher. 

 It is necessary to say that I am located on an eminence. — George Roberts ; Loft- 

 house, Wakefield, August 17, 1863. 



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The Maigre (Sciaena aquila) in Carmarthen, — I send you the particulars of a fish 

 caught in Carmarthen Bay by the trawlers, on the night of the 31st ultimo. Length 

 5 feet 1 inch. Girth 2 feet 9£ inches. Weight 64 tt>s. Colour coppery on back, 

 fading to silvery on the belly, but not so brilliant as described by Couch. As there 

 seems to be some difference as to the number of rays in the fins, I counted them, and 

 found in the first dorsal 8, in the second 28, in the pectoral 16, in the anal 8. — 

 D. Williams ; 56, Wind Street, Swansea, September 2. [Mr. Cornish has obligingly 

 sent me the notice of a second specimen taken near Penzance. — E. Newman.'] 



Fight between a Cobra and a Mongoose. — As many of the readers of the ' Zoolo- 

 gist' no doubt never seethe ' Madras Times,' I forward you an extract from that 

 paper, giving an authenticated account of a fight between the two deadly enemies, the 

 mongoose and the cobra. You will see it mentioned that a fowl that was bitten died 

 half an hour after. In December my dog was bitten by a cobra, but it died in seven 



