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An immature Spoonbill was brought to us on October 6th last, shot on the 

 banks of the Adur, near Shoreham.— Pratt & Sons (Brighton). 



Black-tailed Godwit in Nottinghamshire.— One of these birds was 

 shot by a farmer near Newark-on-Trent during September last. It was 

 amongst his fowls and pigeons which were feeding in a grass-field close to 

 his house. His attention was first drawn to it by the pugnacious way it 

 was behaving to his birds, dashing at them and driving them about, and 

 it permitted him to walk up and shoot it. — J. Whitaker (Rain worth). 



Waxwing in Staffordshire. — A specimen of this bird was shot at 

 Oulton, near Stone, in this county, on the 14th of January, by a boy with 

 a catapult. The bird was very tame, and appeared to be feeding on the 

 berries of the wild-rose. — E. W. H. Blagg (Cheadle, Staffordshire). 



Waxwing in Cambridgeshire.-— As there has been a migration of Wax- 

 wings into England this winter, it may be interesting to note that I have 

 examined a female example of this bird in the shop of Mr. Baker, taxider- 

 mist, Cambridge, which he informed me was shot in January near that 

 town. — G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton (Trinity College, Cambridge). 



Waxwings near Harwich. — On Jan. 30th a pair of Waxwings, 

 Ampelis garrulus, were shot in a garden at Great Oakley, near Harwich, 

 by a man named Keeble, of whom I purchased them for my collection. — 

 F. Kerry (Harwich). 



Waxwing in Co. Wicklow. — A specimen of the Waxwing, Ampelis 

 garrulus, was shot in the village of Delgany, Co. Wicklow, in the early 

 part of January last. It was exceedingly fat, and had been feeding on 

 holly-berries. — Edward Williams (2, Dame Street, Dublin). 



Willow Wren in Winter— RufF in Sussex. — On calling on Mr. 

 Bristow, taxidermist, St. Leonards, he informed me he shot a Willow 

 Wren in a brickfield near here on Dec. 26th, on which day people were 

 skating all about here. He also had a Ruff, Machetes pugnax, brought 

 to him to be set up, shot on the same day at Bexhill. — G. W. Bradshaw 

 (Hastings). 



Hen Harrier at Rainworth. — During the last month one of these 

 hawks has been repeatedly seen flying in these parts. It is a male, in the 

 pale violet-grey coloured plumage, and has so far escaped the snare of the 

 fowler. — J. Whitaker (Rainworth, Notts). 



Variety of Woodcock. — A beautiful variety of this bird was shot at 

 Invar, in Scotland, in November last. The back is of a rich light brown, 

 marked here and there with black; the wings pale violet-grey with chestnut 

 markings, the two outer feathers being marked with bronzy gold, which 

 when caught in certain lights have a sheen like the golden feathers on the 

 breast of a pheasant ; the tail is dark slate with chestnut bars. It is a 



