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same time. In October : the rough-legged buzzard, at Winterton, — a female on the 

 25th, and a male a few days lalev; several oiher examples have also occurred, and 

 they all appear to be of the plumage of the second ov third year, being older than the 

 birds usually captured in other seasons : the gray shrike, at Yarmouth and other 

 places: the tithys or black redstart (female), killed near the old battery at Yarmouth, 

 on the 31st ; this species has not been hitherto included in the Norfolk list : the adult 

 gannet, at Cromer : Richardsou's skua (immature), at Lynn and Yarmouth, and the 

 pomarine skua (immature), at the latter place : the storm petrel, at Lynn : a hybrid 

 between the pheasant and black game was killed, early in the month, at Kew Hill, in 

 the parish of Sneltisham, in West Norfolk, and was supposed by the gamekeeper who 

 killed it to have been bred from a pheasant and a gray hen. — /. H. Gurney, W. R. 

 Fisher ; November, 1848. 



Ornithological Observations at Bishop's Auckland. — In 1844 I received a fine ma- 

 ture rough-legged falcon, shot near Sunderland ; it had been seen and followed about a 

 fortnight before it was captured: also, in November, the same year, an ash-coloured 

 shrike or large butcher-bird was shot near this place ; and a few days afterwards, ano- 

 ther, also a male, was seen, but not captured : in the same month a female red-backed 

 shrike was shot in a field near this place. In December, 1846, 1 received a fine male 

 ash-coloured shrike, shot a little west of this place. On the 8th of April, 1848, a ma- 

 ture marsh-harrier, with us very rare, was shot at Whitworth : on September 4th, a 

 fieldfare was shot on Sunderland Moor: September 15th, I received a very pale buff 

 sparrow {Fringilla domeslica), from Goundou, where there was a brood of five, four of 

 which were of the same colour; the other one appeared to be buff, with two small 

 patches of light brown on the breast. — Joseph Duff; Bishop's Auckland, November 

 15, 1848. 



Provincial Names of Birds. — In pursuance of the example set by several of your 

 correspondents, I forward a list of names applied in this neighbourhood to the com- 

 moner species of birds. The long-eared owl is known os the ' horned owl ' or ' hoo- 

 let ; ' the white owl as the ' screech owl ' or ' hoolet-a-hoo.' The rook is a ' crow,' 

 or * craw,' as it is pronounced ; and the crow is the ' carrion craw.' The missel 

 thrush is the ' misseltoe thrush ' or * storm cock.' The fieldfare is sometimes called 

 the 'blue-tail' or 'blue-rump.' The redwing retains this appellation. The common 

 linnet is the ' gray linnet ' or ' goss linnet.' The lesser redpole is the ' chippet lin- 

 net.' The goldfinch is the ' red-cap.' The chaffinch is the ' spink.' The greenfinch 

 is the ' green linnet.' The bunting is the ' ground lark.' The lark is the ' skylark.' 

 The tree pipit is the ' tree-lark.' The meadow pipit is the ' tit-lark.' The redstart 

 is the ' fanny red-tail.' The yellow bunting is a ' yold-ring.' The wagtails are called 

 ' water wagtails.' The titmice are generally ' tom-tits ; ' the blue titmouse a ' blue- 

 cap;' and the great titmouse an ' ox-eye.' The stonechat and whinchat are indiscri- 

 minately ' whinchats.' The wheatear is a ' white rump.' The hedge warbler is a 

 ' billey ' or ' billy hedge-sparrow.' The reed bunting is the ' reed -sparrow ' or ' black- 

 cap.' The summer warblers are generally ' peggies,' — as ' peggy whitethroat,' ' little 

 ' V e %%y? ' black-capped peggy,' &c. The common wren is a 'jenny wa-ren.' The 

 willow wren is a ' ground feather-poke.' The long-tailed titmouse is a ' bottle-tit' or 

 ' hedge feather-poke.' The ring dove is called ' stock dove.' The swift is a ' deviling,' 

 or, as it is pronounced, ' devvlin.' The heron is a 'heron shaw ' or ' herrin srew.' 

 The plover is a ' teewit,' and the landrail a ' corn crake.' The hawks are indiscrimi- 



