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(which are normal in colouring), in a garden at Fallowfield, not far from 

 here. I quote the above on the authority of my friend Prof. W. Boyd 

 Dawkins, to whom the garden belongs. — Douglas Stuart Stewart 

 (North Leigh, Prestwich, Lancashire). 



Range of Cinclus melanogaster pyrenaicus. — In my recent article 

 on Swiss birds (p. 11), I described some Dippers with head and neck 

 conspicuously pale, but entirely wanting the chestnut band on the belly, 

 and looking very dark-coloured underneath. These birds, which I found 

 on the Aare at Meiringen, puzzled me very much at the time; but on 

 reading an article by Mr. Dresser in the last part of « The Ibis ' (p. 382) 

 on White-breasted Dippers, I find that he describes a form from the 

 Pyrenees similar to the birds which I saw. It appears then that this form 

 is also found in Switzerland. On the Engstlen Alp (6100 ft.), about 4000 

 feet above Meiringen, I saw an undoubted example of C. albicollis, which 

 has the chestnut band. — O. V. Aplin (Bloxham, Oxon). 



Ruddy Sheldrakes in Ireland. — On the 19th August, my friend 

 Mr. John McConnell, of Bart, sent me, for identification, a duck which he 

 had shot out of a flock of six on Burt Slob, near Inch, Lough Swilly, on 

 the previous evening. I was delighted to find it was a Ruddy Sheldrake, 

 a young male, in perfect plumage. The wing-coverts were pure white, and 

 the primaries almost pure black, and there was no trace of the dark ring 

 round the neck — not a feather showed marks of captivity. I know of no 

 ornamental water on which ducks are kept in Co. Donegal or the 

 surrounding districts of Co. Londonderry, and I think we may safely 

 assume that this flock was of genuine wild birds. — D.C.Campbell 

 (Londonderry). Communicated by R. J. Ussher. 



Ruddy Sheldrake in Co. Donegal.— Prof. Leebody, of Londonderry, 

 has kindly furnished me with the following facts : — A flock of six Ruddy 

 Sheldrakes was seen at Inch Reclamation Slob, on August 18th. One was 

 shot on the 18th or 19th by Mr. McConnell, of Inch, and was stuffed by 

 McCourt, of Derry. It is a young male in very nearly complete plumage. 

 Three of these birds remained at Inch for some days. — H. C. Hart 

 (Carrablagh, Port Salon, Letterkenny). 



Ruddy Sheldrake in Co. Dublin. — A flock of five of these birds 

 appeared at Skerries in the latter part of June, of which three were shot, 

 two unfortunately not preserved. Another was shot a week later at 

 Drogheda, probably part of the same flock. I have heard of another shot 

 at the same time at Portarlington, Queen's County. — E. Williams 

 (3, Dame Street, Dublin). 



Ruddy Sheldrakes in Buckinghamshire.— During the past four years 

 no less than ten Ruddy Sheldrakes have been hatched and reared at Stoke 



