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us visits after stormy weather. Some years ago a Black Tern was shot 

 here. — E. P. Larken (Gatton Tower, Reigate). 



Large race of Great Grey Shrike. — I received on Feb. 12th a good 

 specimen, apparently immature, of the large race of Great Grey Shrike, 

 with one broad white bar on the primaries. This bird was shot on the 

 previous day by my gamekeeper near Bank Hall, Bretherton, Lancashire, 

 and is remarkably dark in the plumage of the upper parts, with a 

 considerable amount of transverse markings on the breast. — Lilford 

 (Bournemouth). 



Birds flying against Window-panes.— From time to time birds here 

 are constantly killing themselves against the house windows. This happens 

 almost always on two bay-windows. These have stone mullions, and 

 I think the birds fancy they can pass through them. Ten birds have been 

 killed in this way in the last few years, and I think others, but I do not 

 remember; and these ten were all of different species, which is rather 

 singular. They are : — Whitethroat, Blue Tit, Nuthatch, Titlark, Willow 

 Wren, Blackbird, Thrush, Cuckoo, Yellowhammer, Garden Warbler. — 

 W. Oxekden Hammond (St. Al ban's Court, Wingham). 



Bare Birds in North Devon. — The following birds have been recently 

 shot in North Devon: — Hen Harrier, Circus cyan us, at Heanton, near 

 Barnstaple, in December last; Reeve, Machetes pugnax, at Braunton, in 

 November last; Bittern, Botaurus stellaris, at Fremington, Dec. 9th last; 

 four Hawfinches, Coccothraustes vulgaris, one of which I shot myself, and 

 is now in my collection. I have noticed three of these birds in my garden 

 almost every day since Jan. 4th. — J. G. Hamling (The Close, Barnstaple). 



Green Sandpiper in Winter in the North of Ireland. — As Mr. A. G. 

 More, in the recently issued second edition of his useful 'List of Irish 

 Birds' (1890), has characterised the Green Sandpiper, Totanus ochropus, 

 as "a rare visitor, occurring chiefly in autumn," it may be of interest to 

 report that on Feb. 26th I received a specimen of this bird, still unskinned, 

 which had been shot a couple of days previously in the Co. Tyrone. On 

 referring to Thompson's ■ Natural History of Ireland ' (vol. ii. pp.208 — 210), 

 I find that several instances are noted of the occurrence of this bird in 

 Ireland in winter, and T. have marginal notes to the effect that on the 

 15th Sept. 1876, I received one in the flesh from Athy, Co. Kildare, and 

 in Sept. 1877, another from an inland pond in the west of the Co. Cork. 

 In all three cases the birds were sent to be named, as being unknown to 

 the shooters and their friends. — J. E. Harting. 



