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but, in addition to Dr. Bowdler Sharped ' Handbook,' mentioned in your 

 editorial note, this name is to be found in Forster's ' Catalogus Avium in 

 Insulis Britannicis Habitantium ' (1817); Macgillivray's 'Manual of 

 British Birds' (1846), and Swainson's ' Folk Lore and Provincial Names of 

 British Birds ' (1886). It seems to me to be co-related with St. George's 

 Channel. In Clyde this bird is called Stocknet or Stockannet; and it also 

 bears the following names in different localities: — Skelder, Skelgoose, 

 Skeldrake or Duck, Scale Drake or Duck, Skell, Skeeling, Skeel Duck or 

 Goose, Skeeling Goose, Shelder, Sheld Fowl, Sly Goose, Sky (?) Goose, 

 Ruddy Goose, Bar-, Ber-, and Bur-gander, Bar Drake, Bay Duck, Burrow 

 Duck, Links Duck, Pirennet or Perenet; Gaelic: Cra-ghiadh or Cradh- 

 gheadh ; and Welsh Hwyad-yr-eithin or Hywad-fruith.— Hugh Boyd 

 Watt (3, Victoria Drive, Mount Florida, Glasgow). 



Heron Choked by a Frog.— In the month of August, on the western 

 borders of the Bay of Allan, in Kildare, Ireland, I came across an 

 instance of a Heron being choked in the act of swallowing a frog. — H. 

 Marmaduke Langdale (Thorneycroft, Compton, Peterfield). 



An unrecorded Norfolk Great Bustard. — Professor Newton, with 

 his usual kindness, was good enough to inform me early in the present year 

 that he had heard, through Mr. Osbert Salvin, of a Norfolk killed Great 

 Bustard, which would shortly be sold by auction at Bournemouth, 

 expressing a hope that if genuine it might be restored to its native 

 county. After much negotiation and lengthened correspondence as to its 

 history, I was enabled to purchase what has proved to be the finest male 

 Bustard I have ever seen, and it is now in the collection of Mr. Connop, 

 of Rollesby Hall, Norfolk, with many other local rarities. The history of 

 the bird is briefly as follows. It was shot on Swaffham Heath about the 

 year 1830 by a Mr. Glasse, Q.C., who then resided at Vere Lodge, 

 Raynham, near Fakenham, Norfolk, and had remained in the possession of 

 himself and Miss Glasse (his daughter), until it was sold with the effects of 

 the latter shortly after her death at Bournemouth. I was able to obtain 

 this information from a lady who knew Miss Glasse well, and had heard 

 the history of the bird from her lips ; it was also corroborated by 

 Mr. Bear, the late Mr. Glasse's coachman, who assured me that his 

 master had more than once mentioned the circumstance of his having shot 

 the bird on Swaffham Heath to him ; its history is therefore perfectly 

 established. This superb old bird, if the estimated date of its death be 

 correct, would not uulikely be the last male of the Swaffham drove — the 

 last female having been killed in 1838. — Thomas Southwell (Norwich). 



Occurrence of the Mediterranean Herring Gull, Larus cachinnans, 



ill Norfolk. — Whilst engaged in making a catalogue of the hue collection 



