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I cannot say, but T think the latter. It was shot in a garden at Horringer, 

 near Bury, on January 10th, 1892, and brought to a publican, who set it 

 up very fairly and put it in a case. The legs had been painted bright 

 sealing-wax red, with a greenish " garter," which he assured me was the right 

 colouring. Whether the Norfolk examples of Porphyrio smaragdonotus, 

 obtained in August, September, and October are genuine migrants or not 

 this specimen, shot in mid-winter and in very cold weather, is doubtless an 

 escaped bird, and possibly some one reading this note may remember losing 

 a bird of this kind about the date mentioned, and may be interested to know, 

 its fate. — Jultan G. Tuck (Tostock Rectory, Bury St. Edmunds). 



Sabine's Gull in Cumberland. — Considering that Sabine's Gull has 

 occurred a good many times on the S.W. coast of England, as also on 

 the Welsh coast and on the N.W. coast of Scotland, I have long been 

 puzzled to understand why it has never been hitherto met with in the 

 N.W. of England, notwithstanding the careful description of the bird that 

 I have placed in the hands of persons living on our coast. We have 

 waited long for this little Arctic Gull to arrive, but not in vain. On the 

 30th of September last an immature female of this species was brought to 

 me for identification by a lad who had shot it on Rockliffe Marsh, Cum- 

 berland. Whether the bird had wandered up the Solway Firth from the 

 Irish Sea, or whether it had travelled to this estuary by the great fly-line 

 from the coast of Northumberland, is of course difficult to decide. I lost 

 no time in sending notices of its capture all round the N.W. coast ; so that 

 if any other specimens are secured, or even seen, we are sure to hear of 

 them in due course. The bird in question was alone when shot ; indeed 

 it might have escaped notice altogether, had it not flown directly over the 

 head of the gunner, who thought that it must be some kind of Tern. It will 

 be placed (in a few months' time) in the new collection which is being cased 

 by the Carlisle Corporation, and which will consist mainly of the collections 

 of the late Mr. J. W. Harris and the present writer. — H. A. Macpherson 

 (Carlisle). 



Fulmar breeding in Shetland. — Hitherto the only nesting haunt of 

 this bird in Shetland has been supposed to be Foula, but Mr. Trail, of 

 Edinburgh, has ascertained that last year (1892) thirty pairs had nests on 

 the south-westerly face of the Horn of Papa Stour. This interesting fact 

 is announced in a recent number of the ' Annals of Scottish Natural 

 History '(p. 184). 



Tufted Duck breeding in Warwickshire. — I have never seen any 

 recorded instance of the Tufted Duck, Fuligula cristata, breeding in 

 Warwickshire ; but I feel satisfied that such is occasionally the case, at any 

 rate in North Warwickshire. On June 29th last, while watching a family 

 party of Great Crested Grebes on a pool not very far from Coventry, my 



