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would certainly not have said that it was taken near Keswick, because the 

 old doctor used his words carefully, and did not say one thing when he 

 meant another. I have notes of more than twenty-four of the Eagles, old 

 and young, that were killed in the neighbourhood of Keswick within the 

 last century ; and if Mr. More had waited until the appearance of the 

 forthcoming volume on the Vertebrate Fauna of Lakeland, he would not 

 only have been spared the trouble of writing an unnecessary article, but 

 would have found when my notes on the Osprey in Lakeland appeared that 

 I thrashed out the whole story with Prof. Newton, whose kindness I gladly 

 acknowledge here. — H. A. Macpherson (Carlisle). 



Spotted Eagle in Essex. — I do not observe in the January number of 

 * The Zoologist ' any reference to a second specimen of the Spotted Eagle, 

 Aquila navia, recently procured in this county. It was shot at Leigh, near 

 Southend, by the Rev. R. Stuart King, on Nov. 3rd, less than a week after 

 the capture of the Elmstead specimen which is now in the collection of 

 the Hon. W. Rothschild. According to information communicated to the 

 1 Essex Naturalist,' the bird had been seen about the locality two or three 

 days before it was shot. It was first seen on the ground in the Rectory 

 meadow. Upon being alarmed by a boy, it flew up and settled on a tree. 

 The lad fetched Mr. King, who, recognizing it as an Eagle, procured a gun 

 and shot it. I examined it whilst it was in the hands of the birdstuffei, 

 and agree with Mr. King in regarding it as a young bird. Though Mr. 

 King says it " was evidently weak from want of food and was very light," 

 its plumage was in excellent condition and the spots showed very plainly. 

 Mr. King gives the length as 24J- inches, and the expanse as 5 feet. The 

 wing I found to measure 19 inches. — Miller Christy (Pryors Broomfield, 

 Chelmsford). 



Pallas's Grey Shrike in Notts and Leicestershire. — A specimen of 

 this variety of the Great Grey Shrike was shot at Chilwell, near Beeston, 

 during the first week in January, and may be seen at Stanley's shop, one 

 of our local birdstuffers. Mr. Browne, in his ' Vertebrate Fauna of 

 Leicestershire,' alludes to a specimen of this bird as having been locally 

 obtained. Another was shot by Mr. W. T. Tucker, near Loughborough, 

 on the 11th of January last. In the same work Mr. Browue states that he 

 has no definite record of the occurrence of the Herring Gull in Leicester- 

 shire. Apart from its annual appearance in the Trent Valley, I can record 

 a pair as passing over the town of Loughborough on the 19th September 

 lust. They were flying very low down, and were easily identified. On the 

 same day I saw a Common Tern flying over the River Soar. — F. B. 

 Whitlock (Beeston, Notts). 



Parrot Crossbill in' Ireland.— In 1889 I recorded the first known 

 Irish example of the Parrot Crossbill, as having been obtuined, in January 



