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possession. In this specimen the white patch on the secondaries is exposed 

 to a considerable extent by moving the tips of the superincumbent coverts 

 slightly to one side; the whole of the upper parts have a brownish tinge, 

 especially noticeable on the sides of the face, and the under parts are very 

 much marked with semilunar dark lines. Apart from the white on the 

 secondaries, it might be said to approach L. borealis very slightly in colour. 

 — 0. V. Aplin (Bloxham, Banbury, Oxon). 



Serin Finch in Devonshire. — So far as I am aware the first example 

 of the Serin obtained in Devon was caught on Nov. 29th last, between 

 Exmouth and Budleigh Salterton, by an old birdcatcher. It was in 

 company with two Linnets, which were also taken. On going to the nets 

 the birdcatcher was surprised to see a bird, which he at first took to be a 

 hen Siskin ; but on closer inspection it turned out to be a bird with which 

 he was not acquainted, and which he called a " foreigner." A day or two 

 after it was shown to me, and I expressed the opinion that it was a Siskin. 

 I purchased the bird and despatched it for inspection to the Editor, who 

 confirmed this view. It was evidently not an escaped bird, as on its being 

 put into a cage it did not seem at home, like most recaptured ones become, 

 but fluttered about and tried to regain its liberty, and would not feed ; 

 moreover, its plumage was quite uninjured. The previous occurrences of 

 the Serin in England are but few ; about a dozen only have been obtained, 

 one of which was taken in the adjoining county of Somerset. The bird 

 has been set up for my collection. — W. E. H. Pidsley (Fair Bank House, 

 Polsloe Road, Exeter). 



Raptorial Migrants in East Anglia. — In addition to those already 

 recorded (p. 29) the following raptorial migrants have occurred :— Two 

 immature Peregrines, a male from Boxford and a female from Lakenheath, 

 both of which I saw in the flesh at Bury on Dec. 23rd ; an immature 

 White-tailed Eagle (of course announced in the local paper as a Golden 

 Eagle), shot at Rushbrooke on Jan. 1st, which, by the kindness of the owner, 

 I was permitted to examine in the flesh ; and a young Merlin, shot near 

 the barracks at Bury, about Jan. 18th. A Rough-legged Buzzard was 

 trapped, on Jan. 7th, at Six-Mile Bottom, iu Cambridgeshire, about eight 

 miles west of the Suffolk border, and was offered to me ; but as the captor 

 reported it to be alive and almost uninjured, I placed him in communi- 

 cation with an ornithologist who has long made living raptorial birds a 

 special study. — Julian G. Tuck (Tostock Rectory, Bury St. Edmunds). 



Iceland Gull near Aldeburgh.— During the hard weather prevailing 

 at the commencement of the new year an Iceland Gull, Larus leucopterus, 

 was noticed about Thorpe-mere, near Aldeburgh, and was finally shot on 

 Jan. 7th, 1892. The bird had not acquired the adult plumage, and is 

 probably one that lias moulted at least twice, /'. <\ not less than a second 



