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Gulls. — The Black-headed Gull, Larus ridibundus, is common 

 in spring, and has been reported to have bred near Donington 

 Park, but not, I think, on sufficient evidence. Most of the 

 specimens I have examined showed signs of immaturity, and 

 occurred at almost every time of the year. The Common Gull, 

 L. canus, passes regularly on spring migration, and also occurs 

 after storms with the Lesser Black-backed and Herring Gulls, 

 and the Kittiwake, L. tridactylus. The two larger species are 

 generally represented by immature birds. 



Great Crested Grebe, Podicipes major. — Reported to breed 

 at Dishley. An adult in winter plumage was killed at Zouch, 

 October 13th, and a second bird, a little later, at the Soar mouth. 



Little Grebe, P. minor. — Breeds on the Soar, but only 

 sparingly, and also at Dishley. I found this species very common 

 about Normanton in October, 1889. 



Mr. Browne concludes his remarks on the Birds of Leicester- 

 shire with a table headed " Dates of arrival of Summer Migrants 

 in Leicestershire," which is divided into two periods. Taking 

 the later period, I find extraordinary variation in the dates given. 

 The table should evidently be headed, " Dates of first noting the 

 arrival of Summer Migrants." 



As will be seen by the text, the foregoing remarks refer to 

 the district mentioned in the first part of my paper. 



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Death of Mr. Thomas Cornish, of Penzance. — We have only re- 

 cently heard, with regret, of the death of Mr. Thomas Cornish, of 

 Penzance, which took place on the 12th of August last, at the age of 

 sixty-one. Mr. Cornish, who was for many years a contributor to * The 

 Zoologist,' was born at Tavistock in July, 1830, and educated at the 

 Bedford Grammar School in that town, and afterwards at Blundell's, 

 Tiverton. Adopting the law as his profession, he went to Penzance in 

 1858, where he joined the firm of Messrs. Rodd aud Darke, and, on the 

 death of Mr. Darke, became Mr. Rodd's partner. The name of Edward 

 Hearle Rodd, who died in January, 1880 [cf. Zool. 1880, p. 113), was well 

 known in connection with the ' Birds of Cornwall,' and Thomas Cornish 

 seems to have paid almost as much attention to the Marine Fishes and 

 Crustacea of the county. His chief contribution to the literature of this 



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