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but with darker feathers of C. rufa intermixed. The scapulars and back 

 resemble C. rufa. On the neck and head there is a peculiar admixture 

 which cannot be assigned to either bird, but the appearance of C. rufa 

 predominates. There is no gorget, and the black markings on throat and 

 breast are few and not very distinct ; the flanks are clearly those of C. rufa, 

 but across the breast are traces of P. cinerea ; the tail is that of C. rufa. 

 The legs are horn-brown, bill reddish brown, irides hazel. The bird was 

 received with a hamper of game from Lincolnshire, but the usual reticence 

 of the game-dealer prevented my ascertaining the exact locality. Sub- 

 sequently (October 7th, 1889) I secured a second specimen, received from 

 the same shooting, and probably from the same covey ; but in this C. rufa 

 distinctly predominates, P. cinerea being apparent on the primaries and 

 tertiaries only. Both birds are small in size, and were very backward in 

 their moulting, being in the "pin-feather" condition; this, added to the 

 fact of the birds being badly shot, rendered the successful handling of them 

 a delicate task. I also secured, last season, a peculiar hybrid Pheasant, a 

 full description of which may be of interest to the readers of * The Zoologist ' 

 at a future time. — F. Coburn (7, Holloway Head, Birmingham). 



[If either of the two Partridges above mentioned has been preserved, we 

 should much like to inspect it, and will return it carriage paid. We have 

 seen several so-called hybrids of this kind, but they invariably proved to be 

 young " red-legs." The late Mr. F. Bond informed us that in fifty years' 

 experience he never saw a hybrid between these two species. — Ed.] 



Seafowl at Scarborough. — While spending a few days at Scarborough, 

 about the middle of June last, I paid three visits to the breeding-places of 

 the sea-birds on the cliffs of Buckton and Bempton, a few miles north of 

 the lighthouse on Flamborough Head. The climbers all agreed that it had 

 been an unusually good season for eggs, and certainly the great baskets of 

 eggs which I saw collected on the cliffs and taken home were a sight to be 

 remembered. Guillemots were literally swarming, and Razorbills seem 

 very numerous; here and there a small colony had separated themselves 

 from the other birds. There is a very good show of Kittiwakes ; ten or 

 twelve clutches of eggs were taken at Bempton one morning when I was 

 there, and I was fortunate in obtaining two of the pale green variety, 

 almost spotless. Looking down with a telescope, many old birds could be 

 seen on their nests. The Herring Gulls still breed in good numbers in 

 their old quarters to the north of Filey Brigg, but not on the Bempton 

 Cliffs, or "white rocks"; nor have Peregrines or Cormorants nested 

 there very lately. I saw one or two Cormorants near Filey Brigg, and 

 three Common Scoters in the bay. The Lesser Black-backed Gull I did 

 not see at all. George Londesborough, the old climber at Bempton, whom 

 many will doubtless remember, died five or six years ago, and his house is 

 now occupied and his work carried on by a clever climber named Wilkinson. 



