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species; one, too, which most field-naturalists will ever sentimentally 

 associate with Selborne Hanger and Gilbert White. — H. S. Davenport 

 (Ormandyne, Melton Mowbray). 



Little Owl near Newark-on-Trent. — A bird of this species was shot 

 at the above locality in September, 1896. The late Lord Lilford turned 

 out a number of these birds in Northamptonshire, but this, the first recorded 

 occurrence in Notts, is worthy of mention. — F. Whitaker (Rainsworth, 



Notts). 



Hybrids in St. Stephen's Green Park, Dublin.— We have at present 

 a brood of hybrids between a male Ruddy Sheldrake, Tadorna casarca, and 

 a female Egyptian Goose, Chenalopex cegyptiaca. In shape they are de- 

 cidedly like the Goose, having long legs and depth of bill, but in colour the 

 Sheldrake shows out unmistakably. Some years since a brood of hybrids 

 between the Paradise Sheldrake of Australia (male) and a Ruddy Sheldrake 

 (female) were hatched out, producing a lot of exceedingly handsome birds, 

 in which a rich mahogany-brown was the predominant colour; the top of the 

 head being pure white. This year one of these birds, a male, has bred with a 

 female Ruddy Sheldrake, having a brood of six. At present they are not old 

 enough to exhibit the colours distinctly. There is another curious cross — 

 Bar-headed Goose and White-faced Bernacle ; but both birds are so mixed 

 up in the plumage that they are certainly anything but handsome. The 

 White-faced Bernacle bred two years ago, but from some cause forsook 

 the nest. The eggs were then placed in a Sevastopol! Goose's nest, and 

 were hatched out and reared successfully. Ever since they have been 

 inseparable companions of their foster-parents. — E. Williams (2, Dame 

 Street, Dublin). 



Scaup inland in Lancashire. — Late in November or early in December, 

 about five years ago, Mr. George Parker shot a Scaup on the reservoir near 

 Hyde Road Station, on the outskirts of Manchester. The bird, which Mr. 

 Parker has kindly allowed me to examine, is a female or au immature male. 

 — Chas. Oldham (Sale). 



Night Heron in Derbyshire. — I have recently had an opportunity of 

 examining a Night Heron in adult plumage, which was shot by the late 

 Mr. William Jackson at Coombs Reservoir, a large sheet of water near 

 Chapel-eu-le-Frith, some time in the early sixties. This species has not, I 

 believe, been previously recorded for Derbyshire.— Chas. Oldham (Sale). 



Black Tern in Anglesea. — On June 10th, Mr. T. A. Coward and 

 myself watched a Black Tern for some time on one of the lakes near Valley. 

 The bird flew leisurely to and fro at a slight elevation, making frequent stoops 

 to take food from the surface of the water, on which it once alighted for au 



