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on June 22nd, from a flock of six flying about a stream at Cold Hanworth, 

 about nine miles N.N.E. of Lincoln. There can be no doubt that the 

 Green Sandpiper has occasionally remained to nest in England, and the 

 occurrence of six together in Lincolnshire at this date is suggestive of a 

 family party, reared somewhere in this county. — John Cordeaux (Eaton 

 Hall, Ketford). 



Curlew Sandpiper in Co. Donegal.— As the Curlew Sandpiper, Triwja 

 subarquata, is not included in Mr. Chichester Hart's list of the birds of 

 Donegal (see Zool. 1891, pp. 421 — 424), it may be well to report that 

 I shot a bird of this species on the 26th December, 1892, on the margin of 

 Lough Kiltoons. — J. Steele Elliott (Dudley). 



The Green Sandpiper in S.W. Scotland.— The Green Sandpiper is 

 a tolerably regular, but always extremely scarce, visitant to South- Western 

 Scotland. On the 27th December, Mr. Mackay (who as a taxidermist is 

 worthily filling the blank made in Dumfries by the death of Mr. William 

 Hastings) very kindly brought for my inspection a nice specimen of this 

 species, shot a day or two previously by a gunner on Conheath Merse. 

 Another was shot at the same time, but was too much injured for 

 preservation. I had not seen the species locally since January 6th, 1885, 

 when one was brought in to the late Mr. Hastings that had been shot the 

 day before in Kirkmichael. The late Mr. McKenzie, Barnhill, possessed a 

 specimen that was shot on the margin of the pond in Terregles Park. There 

 is a very interesting notice in Sir W. Jardine's ' British Birds ' of the 

 occurrence of a number of this species at Jardine Hall and the vicinity. 

 The species has also been shot near Castle-Douglas, and through the 

 kindness of Mr. John A. Harvie-Brown I have been furnished with the 

 following extract from the Catalogue of British Birds collected by Mr. W. 

 Smellie Watson, copied from the original MS., now in the Museum of the 

 University of Edinburgh : — " This beautiful little bird I shot on the marshy 

 grouuds behind Carlinwark House, Castle-Douglas, when shooting Snipes. 

 On the wing it [i. e., the back] appeared so white that it resembled a snowball, 

 and its flight was not unlike that of a Common Snipe, but not so quick. It 

 is a solitary bird, and not common. I did not meet with another the whole 

 day, although I went over a very extensive marsh. None of my friends in that 

 neighbourhood had ever met with one of the species before." Mr. Smellie 

 Watson gives no date for this record, but the Catalogue was written in 

 1836. — R. Service (Maxwelltown, Dumfries). 



Nesting of the Quail in Somersetshire. — A farmer who lives close to 

 the Moor, a few miles from this town, and whom T. had asked to obtain for 

 me the eggs of the Water Kail, should he come across a nest, brought me 

 on July 19th, the egg of a Quail to know if this was what T. wanted. He 



