40 Birds, 



Knot, Tringa Conutus Common Gull, Larm canus 



*Pigmy Curlew, Tringa suharquata ^Lesser black-baclied Gull, Larus fuscus 



Dunlin or Oxbird, Tringa alpina *Herriug Gull, Larus argentatus 



*Least Sandpiper or Stint, Tringa minuta *MaskedGull, Chroicocephalus capistratus. 



*Sanderling, Armaria calidris One specimen of this rare bird in 



*Red-necked Phalarope, Lobipes hyperhorea company with a small flock of the 



Turnstone, Strepsilas interpres common Tern ; now alive, and in 



Redshank, Totanus calidris my possession 



Green Sandpiper, Totanus ocropus Hooded GuW, Chroicocephalus ridibundus 



Common Sandpiper, Totanus hypoleucos Sandwich Tern, Sterna Cantiaca 



*Coot, Fulica atra Common Tern, Sterna marina 



*Red-throated Diver, Colymbus septentri- Lesser Tera, Sterna minuta 



onalis. In adult plumage *Widgeon, Mareca Penelope, 1 specimen 



^Arctic Skua, young, Lestris parasiticus ^ only 



I have named the birds from Ey ton's Catalogue ; of those marked 

 with a * 1 have only one or two specimens, the rest were all common. 

 — Fred. Bond; Kmgshury, Middlesex, December, 1842. 



Note on the Red-backed Shrike, (Lanius Collurio). Mr. Selby men- 

 tions having seen a hedge-accentor impaled on a thorn by the great 

 ash-coloured shrike (L. Excubitor) ; and several foreign species of 

 shrike have been observed in the act of seizing their prey : but I am 

 not aware that L. Collurio has been seen doing this, although large 

 insects, which appear to be its usual food, have been frequently 

 found impaled. It is not uncommon in Devonshire and other south- 

 ern counties, and I once found on the cliffs at Teignmouth (a place 

 frequented by the bird), a tiger moth (Eyprepia villica) and several 

 large flies (Eristalis) stuck on thorns. — W. R, Hall Jordan ; Teign- 

 mouth, November 1*2, 1842. 



Note on the Grey Shrike, (Lanius Excubitor). An individual of this 

 species, which 1 had in confinement for a long time, invariably hung 

 its food round the cage ; if half a dozen birds were put in, it himg 

 them all up by forcing their heads between the wires of the cage, and 

 pieces of meat were also fastened up. I never saw the red-backed 

 shrike impale insects, nor do 1 recollect ever to have found any im- 

 paled here, although the bird is not at all uncommon. — Henry Don- 

 hleday ; Epping, December, 1843. 



Note on the Hawfinch, (Coccothraustes vulgaris). This bird, al- 

 though pretty common in some localities, seems very pai'tially distri- 

 buted in England, and there is something a little remarkable in its 

 habits. In the w^inter of 1835 and spring of 1836, they were extreme- 

 ly common in the forest, associating in large flocks, and feeding upon 

 the seeds of the hornbeam, which were very abundant. In the spring 

 of 1837 T saw fewer birds, and the seed was not abundant, I mean the 



