Birds. 1263 



Pine Grosbeak, Pyrrhula enucleator. Bill Quay, near New- 

 castle ; in my collection. 



Little Bustard, Otis tetrax. Warkworth and Twizell, Northum- 

 berland. 



Glossy Ibis, Ibis falcinellus. Near Rothbury ; a specimen shot 

 to the south of Sunderland, is in the collection of Edward Back- 

 house, Jun. 



Red-necked Phalarope, Phalaropus hyperboreus. Near Alnmouth ; 

 Mr. Hancock of Newcastle has specimens from that coast. 



White-eyed Pochard, Fuligula Nyroca. On the Tyne, near Her- 

 ham. 



Iceland Gull, Larus Islandicus. Holy Island. 



Fork-tailed Petrel. Thalassidroma Bullockii. Benwell, near 

 Newcastle. 



The above fourteen, with the Sylvia modestus, shot on the Nor- 

 thumberland coast by John Hancock of Newcastle, will make the 

 number for Northumberland and Durham 237 species. 



I may mention the following among the rarer birds included in 

 Hogg's catalogue which have come under my observation. 



Gadwell and Garganey. 1 have a specimen of each of these from 

 the Tees mouth. 



Ivory Gull, Great Shearwater, Manx Shearwater. Specimens of 

 these from the Tees mouth are in the collection of Edward Back- 

 house, Jun. 



Velvet Duck. Several specimens met with in severe winters. 



Fulmar. I have a specimen, found dead on a sand-bank at the 

 Tees mouth ; in dissecting, I observed that the wind-pipe is divided 

 by a septum into two channels for more than half its length. 



Several specimens of the following birds have been met with from 

 the Tees mouth, by Edward Backhouse, Jun. and myself: — 



Goosander ; Red-breasted Merganser ; Black-throated Diver, 

 young or winter plumage ; Sclavonian Grebe, young or winter plu- 

 mage ; Red-necked Grebe, young or winter plumage ; Pomarine Skua ; 

 Glaucous Gull ; Pintail Duck. 



William Backhouse. 



Darlington, December 11th, 1845. 



A Lady bit by an Adder. — On Tuesday morning, between eleven and twelve 

 o'clock, Mrs. Jameson, a lady residing at Petersham, Surrey, was crossing the mea- 

 dows from that place on her way to Richmond, when an adder that lay concealed 

 in the grass, bit her on the foot, and by the time she reached her destination it had 

 swelled most alarmingly. Mrs. Jameson obtained assistance at the nearest surgeon's 



