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*Lancl Rail, Crcx pratensU Goosander, Metujus Merganser 



*S|)otte(l Rail, Crex Porzana Smew, Mergus alhellun 



*Moor Hen, Gallinula chloropus * Pochard, Fuligula feritia 

 *Coot, Fulica atra Scaup Duck, Fuligula Gesneri 



*Tippet Grebe, Podiceps cristatus *Tufted Duck, Fuligula cristata 



Eared Grebe, Podiceps auritus *Goldea Eye, Clangula chrgsopfuhilmox 



*Dabchick, Podiceps minor *Widgeon, Mireca Penelope 



* Black -throated Diver, Co/y>n6Ms rt/*e<icw5, *Teal, Qaerquedula Crecca 



a young bird Pintail, Dafila acuta 



*Pomarine Gull, Lestris striatus, young *Gadwall, Chauliodus Strepera 



*Common Gull, Larus canus Shoveller, Rhynchaspis clypeata 



Lesser black-backed Gull, Larus fuscus *Wild Duck, Anas Boschas 



Black-beaded Gull, Chroicocephalus ri- One or other of the grey Geese has oc- 



dibundus curred several times, but I have not 



*Arctic Tern, Sterna arctica been able to get hold of one to exa- 



*Common Tern, Sterna marina mine 



* Little Tern, Sterna minuta Brent Goose, A user Brenta 

 *Black Tern, Sterna nigra Wild Swan, Cggnus ferus 



— Fred. Bond; Kingshiiry, Fehniarij^ 1843. 



Note on the Migration of Birdn. The last season has been re- 

 markable for the irregularity attending the appearance of our birds of 

 passage. In this neighbourhood the redstart was unusually abun- 

 dant ; the whinchat I never saw at all. In other seasons whilst the 

 latter are abundant, the redstarts are few in number. Though daily 

 looking out anxiously for the swallows, they did not make their ap- 

 pearance till the 30th of April : they disappeared from this part on 

 the 12th of October, but in the sheltered streets of Bath I saw them 

 till the 30th. 1 remember seeing one in .Jersey on the 20th of No- 

 vember, 1840, and thinking it late even there; but my friend Mr. 

 George Waring tells me that he saw three at Falmouth on the 5th 

 of December of the last year. INIr. Jesse tells us that the martins 

 stay much later than the swallows ; the reverse is, however, the 

 case, so far as my observations have gone. — William C. Hewitson ; 

 Bristol, February, 1843. 



Enquiry respecting White's Thrush. I would beg to ask whether 

 the rare thrush called " White's " is an accidental variety, or a mule, 

 or a wanderer from its family into England ? And if the latter, where 

 are they natives, and what are the sexual marks } My reason for ask- 

 ing these questions is, that I have now, and have had for many weeks 

 past, a bird of this description daily appearing on my lawn in front 

 of my study window. I at first supposed it might be a hen blackbird, 

 being quite as large, with a similar tail ; as dark in colour, but with 

 more of a chesnut brown on the breast. It is not a blackbird, for it 



