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Starlings and Greenfinches, the latter feeding on the pinkish seeds of 

 persicaria. A small lot of Ringed Plovers are still about, some of 

 them apparently birds of the year, and a few Green Sandpipers, and 

 Redshanks. I was very close to three of these last birds for some time 

 this afternoon. — R. B. Lodge (Enfield). 



Broad-billed Sandpiper in Kent. — An immature female of the 

 Broad- billed Sandpiper [Limicola platyrhyncha) was procured on Aug. 

 31st last near Littlestone-on-Sea, Kent. The specimen has been pre- 

 served by Mr. G. Bristow, of St. Leonards. This is the second 

 Kentish example of this species that I have examined in the flesh. 

 The first, also an immature female, was obtained at the same place on 

 Sept. 6th, 1896, and was recorded by Mr. Boyd Alexander (Zool. 1896, 

 p. 411). — L. A. Curtis Edwards (31, Magdalen Road, St. Leonard's- 

 on-Sea). 



Occurrence of the Broad-billed Sandpiper in Sussex. — An imma- 

 ture male of Limicola platyrhyncha was shot on the shore near 

 Bexhill by my friend Mr. A. C. Wendell Price, on Sept. 14th last. 

 Early in the morning of that day he fired a "right and left" at a party 

 of three birds (the only waders observed during the morning) flying 

 strongly westward, and killed the specimen in question, together with 

 a Dunlin. On viewing these birds the next day, I had the pleasure of 

 identifying the Sandpiper, which is very similar to the recent Kentish 

 specimen recorded by Mr. Edwards, supra. — W. Ruskin Butterfield 

 (4, Stanhope Place, St. Leonards-on-Sea). 



Wood-Sandpiper in Co. Dublin. — On Aug. 19th I flushed and 

 obtained a Wood- Sandpiper [Totanus glareola) , in immature plumage, 

 near Sutton, Co. Dublin. This, I believe, is the first occurrence of 

 this bird in Co. Dublin, three having been shot at various times in the 

 adjoining county of Wicklow, and one in Co. Waterford, this specimen 

 being the sixth recorded from Ireland. — W. J. Williams (19, Garville 

 Road, Dublin). 



Sandwich Tern on the Norfolk Coast. — An adult male Sandwich 

 Tern (Sterna cantiaca) was shot by my son on Sept. 14th from a 

 rowing-boat within half a mile of Hunstanton Pier. Mr. Clarke, of 

 Snettisham, who set it up for us, told me that only one or two others 

 had passed through his hands. I have seen several other Sandwich 

 Terns about, probably passing along the Wash on migration from 

 their breeding-places on the Scotch and Northumbrian coasts. It is 

 quite possible [vide Zool. 1894, pp. 88, 89) that this species does occa- 

 sionally breed on the Norfolk shore. — Julian G. Tuck (Tostock Rectory, 

 Bury St. Edmunds, Suflblk). 



