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could only give me a hazy description of it, I took the liberty of writing at 

 once to H.R. Highness (with whom I had previously had certain ornitholo- 

 gical correspondence) to ask for particulars of this occurrence. The Gomte 

 replied to my enquiries most promptly and obligingly, informing me that 

 this Crane had for two months been keeping company with a large flock of 

 its own species ; but when the others left the district, on the northward 

 migration in March, this white one remained alone, and H.R.H. — being 

 anxious to secure it for preservation— stalked behind a horse to within forty 

 yards, and shot it, on April 5th ult. I received the skin for inspection on 

 May 3 1st, and, as I believe that varieties of this species are by no means 

 common, 1 append a full description kindly written out for me by Mr. 

 J. Cullingford of Durham, to whom the Comte de Paris has entrusted the 

 specimen for preservation. I am informed that it was a female. 



" Description of skin of Crane, Grus cinerea, $ , shot by H.R.H. the 

 Comte de Paris, in the Coto del Rey, Andalucia, April 5th, 1892 : — Hair- 

 like feathers on head, brown ; feathers below the occiput for three inches, 

 grey ; the malar region, throat, and portion of neck for ten inches, grey, — 

 a broad white band from the eyes separating the grey of the occiput from 

 that of the throat ; the back of neck and the whole of the back and rump 

 almost white, slightly tinged with grey ; the longest feathers in the scapu- 

 lars have the shafts towards the ends pale brown, the feathers on each side 

 a little paler, shading into white ; the tail-coverts are grey, of two shades ; 

 the base of tail almost white, and the terminal portion grey. The primaries 

 dark brown; the secondaries pale brown, the innermost elongated feathers 

 almost white, shading into brown; wing-coverts nearly white, excepting 

 three or four feathers which have brown ends. The lower portion of neck 

 and the whole of body white." — Lilford. 



Iceland Gull in Kinsale Harbour. — It may interest Mr. R. Warren, 

 and possibly others of your readers, to know that I observed an immature 

 specimen of the Iceland Gull, Larus leucojJterus, in Kinsale Harbour, on 

 May 15th, among some Herring Gulls. — H. Leyborne Popham (Yacht 

 ■ Merganser,' R. W. Y. C, Valentia). 



Supposed occurrence of Ivory Gull in Co. Dublin. — The White 

 Gull stated (p. 228) to have been seen on the Liffey, between Essex and 

 Carlyle Bridges, on April 19th, was more likely, I think, to have been a 

 specimen of the Iceland Gull, Larus leucopterus, than of the Ivory Gull, 

 L. ebumeus. It was probably a straggler from the flight of Iceland and 

 Glaucous Gulls that visited our north-west coast last winter, of which several 

 specimens of both species were obtained on the coast of Donegal, and 

 of the Iceland Gull on the Sligo and Mayo coasts. The Ivory Gull is 

 such a rare visitor to Ireland that only two specimens have been ob- 

 tained that could be recorded with any certainty; one, mentioned by 



