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Park, near Slough. Of these only two were caught and pinioned ; the rest 

 flew away usually when the frost and snow came. — H. Howard Vyse 

 (Stoke Place, near Slough). 



Ruddy Sheldrake in Lincolnshire. — A Buddy Sheldrake, Tadorna 

 casarca, was brought to me on September 1st by H. Stubbs, a wildfowler. 

 It had been killed the same morning from a pool of water on Humberstone 

 " fitties" by a Cleethorpe gunner, to whom Stubbs gave a couple of Mallards 

 in exchange. The bird is apparently in immature plumage, and probably 

 a female. A stormy S.W. wind had been blowing during the previous 

 night. — G. H. Caton Haigh (Grainsby Hall, Great Grimsby). 



Hoopoe in Norfolk. — On the 19th April last an adult male Hoopoe 

 was brought to me. It was in exquisite plumage and a good state of preser- 

 vation. It was picked up dead the day previously at Walcot. Having no 

 wound or external hurt of any kind so far as I could see, I concluded 

 that it had fallen a victim to the cold and rough weather which we had 

 experienced during the previous week. On May 7th and 9th, 1890, a 

 single Hoopoe was seen at Swayfield by Rev. F. S. Thew, he having 

 previously seen one there in 1888. Two were killed in the neighbourhood 

 of Yarmouth in 1885, but I think these have already been recorded in 

 • The Zoologist.' — Maurice C. H. Bird (Brunstead Rectory, Norwich). 



Summer Birds kept through the Winter.— Under this title in the 

 last number of * The Zoologist,' is a note by Mr. J. H. Gurney. But what 

 does he mean by " summer birds"? I have seen the Pied Wagtail in my 

 garden in the depth of winter, and have kept it and the Grey Wagtail in 

 an unheated, exposed aviary. The Greater Whitethroat, too, is a hardy 

 bird, far more so than the Wheatear, which, however, is not delicate. The 

 Swallow and the Blackcap might be called summer birds, although 

 individuals of both species are sometimes seen with us in the winter. All 

 the birds which Mr. Gurney mentions have been kept through the winter 

 in England before — even the Swallow having been exhibited in two con- 

 secutive years at the Crystal Palace Bird Shows. I have been informed, 

 moreover, that the exhibited specimens were from two different counties, 

 though generally imagined to be the same individual. If this is so, it would 

 show that it is less difficult to keep this bird in confinement during the 

 winter than is generally supposed. — A. G. Butler (Beckeuham). 



Lapwings carrying their Young. — Most field ornithologists, at one 

 time or other, in districts where Woodcocks breed, have seen the curious habit 

 that bird has of sometimes removing the young by carrying them one at a 

 time between the feet aud legs, very much after the same way in which a hawk 

 carries its prey. (See ■ The Zoologist,' 1879, p. 433, and figure.) One day 

 at the end of May last, while I was passing along a road in Southwick, 

 a Lapwing ilew over my head, holding between its legs, pressed up Hgainat 



