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which had flown aboard fishing luggers. The first was brought me 

 on Oct. 9th ; it eagerly devoured portions of a broken Herring milt 

 and roe which I held on my fingers, its head being continually shaken 

 and its vertically held wings upon the flutter. It mostly seized minute 

 portions, but occasionally " dug" and pulled at a milt as a Gull does 

 at a stranded carcase. It died a day or two after. The second bird 

 was equally exhausted, and far shyer, and most difficult to make feed. 

 It persisted in moving around, much after the manner of a large moth, 

 and when it stopped for a rest would sit with its long legs under it, 

 much after the fashion of a Guillemot. — A. H. Patterson (Yarmouth). 



Rare Birds in Norfolk. — On Sept. 21st, between Wells and Cromer, 

 I flushed a bird which I at first supposed to be a very yellow Titlark. 

 On securing it I found that it was a small Bunting, which proved to 

 be an example of Emberiza aureola. The bird has been identified by 

 Dr. Bowdler Sharpe and Mr. Howard Saunders, and was recently 

 exhibited in London. The wind was N.E. The same authorities de- 

 cided that a dark Stonechat, shot by my brother, G. F. Arnold, near 

 the same place on Sept. 2nd, 1904, wind W.N.W., was a specimen of 

 Pratincola maura. Both birds will shortly be presented to the East- 

 bourne Museum. — E. C. Arnold (Blackwater House, Eastbourne 

 College). 



A New Notts Bird. — A specimen of the Dusky Thrush (Tardus 

 dubius) was shot at Gunthorpe, in this county, by a nursery gardener 

 named Mills. He heard a bird in a willow tree calling a loud "chack, 

 chack," something like a Fieldfare, but more shrill. When the bird 

 flew out he at once saw that it was not a Fieldfare, as it flew more 

 like a Jay. He fired, and killed it with his second barrel. When he 

 picked it up he knew it was a strange bird, and took it to Bore, taxi- 

 dermist, of Notts, where I saw it. There is no doubt that it is a Dusky 

 Thrush, and is in very perfect plumage, and not only the first Notts 

 specimen, but a new one to the British list. The bird was shot on 

 Oct. 13th last, and was a male. — J. Whitaker (Rainworth Lodge, 

 Notts). 



Rare Birds in Aberdeenshire. — A specimen of the Great Snipe 

 (Gallinago major) was shot near the mouth of the Paver Ythan, 

 Sept. oth. It was so much injured by the shot that the sex could not 

 be determined. Pioller (Coracias garrulus) : a female specimen of this 

 straggler was shot at Auchmeden, near Aberdour, Sept. 9th. Its 

 stomach was well filled with beetles and flies. Black-tailed Godwit 

 (Limosa lapponica) : A fine specimen of this by no means common 



