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Partridge and the December one had, when fresh, the red patch 

 of skin behind the eye which is a character in adult Partridges 

 of the normal type. 



On May 18th the Eev. M. C. Bird received an albino Eobin 

 from Hempstead, and in September the ' Field ' recorded a white 

 Swallow at Gunton, in which month I saw a pied Robint at 

 Northrepps. A pied Mallard f with a very dark back, forwarded 

 by Mr. Patterson, was bought in Yarmouth market, but may not 

 have been a wild-bred one. Mr. Lowne received a primrose- 

 coloured Greenfinch alive from Bury St. Edmunds. 



Correction. 

 The Ruddy Shelduck,t stated to have been shot near Yar- 

 mouth (Zool. 1899, p. 123, and 1900, p. 530), was, I now find, 

 shot at Blakenny by Mr. Long, the well-known wildfowler, and 

 it is impossible to say whether it was a wild bird. 



Affection among Birds. 

 A pair of Barton Mute Swans frequented Mrs. Lubbock's 

 little broad at Catfield during the autumn ; one of these birds 

 was wounded (an old gunshot wound probably), and died at the 

 end of September. On October 1st Mr. Bird saw the hen Swan 

 sitting by the side of her departed — feather to feather. This 

 she — more or less, off and on — continued to do, never going 

 more than a few hundred yards away, until the carcase was all 

 gone excepting a few feathers and bones. Even the large bones 

 — sternum, leg, and wing bones — had been carried away (by Rats 

 and Crows) before the poor old hen relinquished her watchings, 

 for on November 26th Mr. Bird disturbed her from within a few 

 inches of the remains. 



