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time. I suppose they are on their way to southern climes. Great numbers 

 of them are to be seen on some mornings at this season in the park here. 

 This continues for about a fortnight or three weeks, when nearly all depart. 

 — J. G. Hamltng (The Close, Barnstaple). 



Quails in Nottinghamshire.— There are three pairs of Quail evidently 

 nesting close to the house here, — two pairs in clover and one in barley. 

 Formerly we often shot Quail in September; now they are not often seen, 

 and it is several years since I flushed one in the shooting season. Common 

 Sandpipers had returned here from their breeding-places by 24th of July. — 

 J. Whitaker (Rainworth, Mansfield, Notts). 



White-fronted Goose in St. Kilda.— It may perhaps interest Mr. 

 Steele Elliott, whose notes from St. Kilda are printed in the last number 

 (p. 281), if I mention the White-fronted Goose (Anser albifrons) as a recent 

 addition to the fauna of that island. An adult male of this species, a soli- 

 tary straggler, was shot on St. Kilda in June of the present year ; and, as it 

 was a handsomely-marked bird, I had the pleasure of sending it to Mr. W. 

 Eagle Clarke for the collection in his charge at Edinburgh. Apropos of 

 Fulmar us glacialis, when I visited St. Kilda a few years ago to obtain the 

 downy young of this species, I found that the nestlings appeared to be from 

 three days to a week old upon the 10th of July. This year some young 

 Fulmars were sent to me from St. Kilda during the first week of August. 

 The largest had lost a great deal of the nestling down, and they had all 

 begun to develop their quills. I may add that a very pretty Pied Puffin was 

 sent to me from St. Kilda this year. The whole of the upper parts are 

 varied with white feathers in this bird. Of course such varieties of 

 Fratercula have been often recorded, but they are seldom to be seen in 

 public museums. This bird is being mounted for the Carlisle Museum. — 

 H. A. Macphkrson (Carlisle). 



[We received a notice of this occurrence from Mr. Steele Elliott, but too 

 late for insertion in the last number, which was then in the press. — Ed.] 



Water Pipit at Tetney Haven. — On April 5th I shot a Pipit at 

 Tetuey Haven on the Lincolnshire coast, which at the time I supposed to 

 be the Scandinavian form of Anthus obscurus in summer plumage, but 

 subsequently Mr. Cordeaux, having seen the skin, pronounced it to be an 

 example of Anthus spipoletta; and Professor Newton and Mr. Dresser, who 

 were kind enough to examine the specimen, concurred in this opinion. This 

 is the first occurrence of this species in Lincolnshire.— C. H. Caton Haigh 

 (Aber-Ia, Penrhyndeudraeth, Merionethshire). 



Period of Incubation with the Shag. — When visiting a nesting 

 haunt of the Shag or Green Cormorant in Shetland on May 6th last I was 

 somewhat surprised to find that most of the nests had their full complement 

 of eggs, apparently a good deal incubated. A few, indeed, contained young, 



