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Stowlangtoft, about the 1st of March, and Mr. Bunn, of Lowestoft, had one 

 which was shot on Feb. 25th. Three were recorded in a local paper as shot 

 by a warrener at Hollesley about the end of January, and I have heard of 

 one or two more. Such an immigration has not occurred since the winter 

 of 1866-67.— Julian G. Tuck (Tostock Rectory, Bury St. Edmunds). 



Waxwings in Essex. — On Feb. 23rd a Waxwing, Ampelis garrulus, 

 was shot here, whilst feeding on privet berries. It was either very fearless 

 or stupid, for it allowed several persons to place their hands within a few 

 inches of it. On dissection it proved to be a female bird, and it has five 

 wax-like appendages on each wing. On March 4th, another was killed by 

 a boy with a stone. This was a male, and is the finest bird of four killed in 

 this neighbourhood, the wax-like appendages being larger than any of the 

 others, and numbering six in the right wing, and five in the left. The Wax- 

 wings killed on Jan. 30th near here (as already reported, p. 109) were male 

 and female, and had four wax tips in each wing. — F. Kerry (Harwich). 



Waxwing and Firecrest in Sussex. — We had sent us for preservation 

 on March 2nd a Waxwiug Ampelis garrulus, which had been killed at 

 Stevning a few days before ; it is a dull-coloured hen bird. On March 18th 

 a female Firecrest, Regulus ignicapillus, was brought in for preservation ; 

 it had been killed in the furze on the Downs near here. — Brazener Bros. 

 (Brighton). 



[How about the close time ? It is illegal to shoot these birds between 

 March 1st and August 1st. — Ed.j 



Zonotrichia albicollis, Bonap., in Holderness. — At the commence- 

 ment of the year Mr. G. W. Jalland, of Holderness House, near Hull, saw, 

 amongst the birds he was in the habit of feeding on his lawn, one with 

 which he was not acquainted, and which he thought might be a wanderer 

 from some distant part of the world. The bird remained about the grounds 

 for six weeks, and its identity not having been solved by Mr. Jalland 

 (though a practical out-door ornithologist), it was shot on Feb. 13th, and sent 

 in the flesh to Mr. Philip Loten, of Easington. I was indebted to Mr. 

 Hewetson, of Leeds, for a full description of the stranger, and an excellent 

 and accurate water-colour sketch of it, on seeing which I suspected it 

 would prove to be an example of the White-throated Bunting, Zonotrichia 

 albicollis, and probably an adult male in winter plumage. Subsequently, 

 on Feb. 25th, I had an opportunity of examining it at Mr. Loten 's house 

 in Easington, and verifying my supposition. The water-colour drawing 

 was also sent to Prof. Newton for his inspection, who agrees in the deter- 

 mination as Z. albicollis. The White-throated Bunting has occurred twice 

 previously in Great Britain, — once on the coast near Aberdeen, in August, 

 1867, and again at Brighton. The illustration given in Gray's ' Birds of 

 the West of Scotland ' gives a very poor idea of the beauty of this bird, 



