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found to have the ordinary dark eye of the Grouse. One of the 
birds was reported in autumn. 
The following are a selection of the notes and records sent 
in to the Bureau :— 
January 2nd, 1911.—Fourteen Grey Lag Geese seen near 
Silloth (W. Nichol). 
3rd.—Heard Bewick’s Swans in flight near Silloth (W. 
Nichol). 
~- 5th.—Saw about forty Grey Lag Geese at Skinburness (W. 
Nichol). 
16th.—Saw about twenty-seven Grey Lag Geese at Skin- 
burness (W. Nichol). 
30th.—Grey Lags again seen at Skinburness (W. Nichol). 
Hawfinch seen at Newby Grange, Crosby-on-Eden (EK. Hodgson). 
March 2nd.—A flock of Wild Geese flying north-east passed 
over Stanwix at 1 p.m.; a second flock passed in the same 
direction at 3 p.m., about twenty-five birds (L. E. Hope). 
10th.—Raven seen near Botcherby by two observers (H. H. 
Hodgkinson). 5 
17th.—A Tawny Owl flying in a plantation with a Squirrel 
in its talons; the Squirrel screamed as it was carried away, 
Westward, near Wigton (R. W. Barwise). A White Stork seen 
near Raby Cote, Silloth (W. Nichol). 
18th.—Three Sand-Martins seen to-day; also a pair of 
Common Wrens nest-building at Westward, Wigton (R. W. 
Barwise). 
26th.—Three of the Whooper Swans left the River Eden 
to-day (T. Hudson). Sandwich Terns arrived at Ravenglass 
to-day, three days later than usual (J. M. Charlton). 
30th.—Thirty Wild Geese seen near Silloth by J. Backhouse. 
April 3rd.—Saw a Kingfisher at Gosling Beck, near Moor- 
ville (J. B. Cairns). First Wheatear seen near Silloth, also at 
Wigton (W. Nichol). 
4th.—The two remaining old Whooper Swans and the three 
young ones left the River Eden to-day (T. Hudson). I saw a 
Yellow Wagtail to-day near Silloth (W. Nichol). 
10th.—Flock of three hundred Bernacle Geese near Silloth 
(J. Backhouse). 
