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hands of a Lincoln taxidermist, but omitted at the time to record the 

 occurrence. The specimen is now at the ' Crown Inn,' Glentham, 

 near Lincoln, in the possession of Mr. G. H. Massam, who has 

 informed me that the animal was a female changing from winter to 

 summer dress, and was caught in Fenwood, in the parish of Caenby, 

 on April 26th, 1905. This locality is not far from the ancient haunts 

 of the Marten in Central Lincolnshire, where up to about 1875 it 

 was a comparatively common animal. ' The last previous record 

 known to me of a Marten captured in Lincolnshire is of one killed 

 near Sleaford about the year 1888 (c/. Zool. 1893, p. 354), so it is 

 probable that the species is now practically extinct in the county. — 

 F. L. Blathwayt (Doddington Rectory, Lincoln). 



AVES. 

 Occurrence of the Stone-Curlew ((Edicnemus scolopax) in Co. Cork. 

 — In the last week of February the first specimen of Stone-Curlew (or 

 Great Plover) obtained in this county was sent by Sir Egerton Coghill 

 from Castletownshend for preservation to Mr. Rohu, naturalist, of 

 Grand Parade, Cork. — Robert Warren (Ardnaree, Monkstown, 

 Co. Cork). 



Instance of a Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa belgica) Living in a 

 Garden. — Some weeks ago, when walking through Ballybricken 

 demesne and passing the garden-door, Mr. Lehane asked me in to 

 see a strange bird he had wounded on the shore, which, being only 

 slightly injured in the wing, he, not wishing to kill it, had let loose 

 in the garden, and, as he had never seen a bird like it, wished me 

 to examine and tell him its name. We entered the garden, and after 

 some time looking about he saw it behind a bush, and, rushing for- 

 ward, snapped it up before it could escape, and, bringing it to me, I 

 was surprised to see the finest specimen of Black-tailed Godwit that 

 I ever saw, in perfect plumage and in the finest condition of any 

 wader that I ever handled, almost as fat and plump as a Partridge. 

 Strange to say, the bird received no food of any kind save what it 

 could pick up about the garden, and found sufficient water, I sup- 

 pose, by sipping the rain and dewdrops off the cabbage and broccoli 

 leaves. It had been living in the garden for three months, but had 

 plenty of feeding ground to wander over, for the garden (fruit and 

 vegetable) has an extent of between four and five acres. — Robert 

 Warren (Ardnaree, Monkstown, Co. Cork). 



The Occurrence of a rare Arctic Visitor made known by a Falcon. 

 — On Feb. 17th a man walked into the shop of Mr. Rohu, naturalist, 



