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the year. Other examples are more olive on the upper parts ; there is very 

 little buff on the breast and flanks ; and the pale tips of the lesser wing- 

 coverts and the peculiar Geocichline pattern on the inner webs of the 

 primaries are pure white. These I take to be adult birds, which seldom, 

 if ever, wander to Europe. I have no doubt whatever that if birds which 

 are not accidental visitors be excluded, and birds of the year be regarded as 

 immature, the evidence of Heligoland will be found to agree with that 

 of the British Islands in favour of the theory that the greater number of 

 Accidental Visitors are immature. — Henry Seebohm. 



Correction of Error. — In ■ The Zoologist' (1893, p. 26), I have given 

 11 two adult to three young " as the proportion amongst the autumn immi- 

 grants. This should, however, be two-thirds young, and read " one adult 

 to two young." The statement, which is based on Mr. Gatke's observations 

 at Heligoland, must be taken as having reference to the common host of 

 and throughout the period, and in no way connected with the composition 

 of separate flocks or partial observations restricted to any special area on 

 the east coast. — John Cordeaux (Eaton Hall, Retford). 



Occurrence of the Carrion Crow in the Island of Coll. — On the 

 6th of last December I saw and heard a single Carrion Crow, Corvus corone, 

 in Coll. I was unable to shoot it, but was not more than a hundred yards 

 from the bird, which was very noisy. There is no authenticated record of 

 this species from either Coll or Tiree, though Messrs. Harvie-Brown and 

 Buckley mention, in 'Fauna of the Inner Hebrides '(p. 89), that it has 

 been reported from Tiree : a report, I fairly own, I did not credit till 

 I personally saw one in Coll. It may be added that this autumn and 

 winter a great many Rooks visited Coll from Mull ; they could be seen 

 coming over in the morning and returning in the evening, some few, 

 however, remaining to roost. — L. H. Irby (Army and Navy Club). 



Garganey in Holderness. — I do not think that Mr. Cordeaux has got 

 the right date for the occurrence of the above (see Zool. 1892, p. 424), 

 which has been repeated in the Yorkshire 'Naturalist' under the same 

 date — i. e. Sept. 19th. I saw a young Garganey, in the flesh, obtained by 

 one of Dr. Hewetson's party on Sept. 2nd ; and I took great pains in 

 stalking a small duck next day, believing it to be another Garganey, but 

 which when shot proved to be only a Teal. So that either Mr. Cordeaux's 

 record is not properly the first for the Huraber district or he must have 

 been misinformed as to the date. — H. H. Slater. 



Baillon's Crake in Nottinghamshire. — On February 13th, 1891, the 

 birdstuffer at Retford pointed out to me, on one of his top shelves, a small 

 Spotted Crake, which had been obtained on the river at Bolam, near 

 Retford, some little time previously. Subsequently my brother bought the 

 bird, which has turned out to be a specimen of Bullion's Crake, Porzana 

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