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Glaucous Gull in Co. Antrim. — On the 25th of February last I 

 received an immature specimen (in the flesh) of Lams glaucus, posted 

 from Ballycastle, Co. Antrim. On writing to my correspondent, I 

 learnt it had been shot by him on Rathlin Island on February 19th, it 

 having been seen on the previous day with other Gulls, and was con- 

 sidered to be a stranger by its large size ; it measured twenty- seven 

 inches from tip of bill to end of tail. — W. C. Weight (Belfast). 



@Bj i Grebe in Cheshire. — A Grebe of this species (Podicipes nigri- 

 jllis) was shot on the Dee Marsh, near Chester, in November of last 

 year (1906). The specimen was in the possession of a taxidermist 

 when I saw it, and he told me that it was handed to him as the Little 

 Grebe. The stomach contained fish and insect remains, and other 

 material which I was unable to determine. Two specimens are re- 

 corded in Dr. H. Dobies's list of the Birds of West Cheshire, Denbigh- 

 shire, and Flintshire (' Proceedings,' iv., C. S. N. S.), and a third 

 specimen is contained in the local collections of this Museum, which 

 was procured at Tranmere, Cheshire, in December, 1897. — A. New- 

 stead (Grosvenor Museum, Chester). 



Movements of Birds in Time of Snow. — I have received the follow- 

 ing notes from Mrs. Croasdaile, of Shanganagh Terrace, Killiney, a 

 lady whose careful observations have been of great assistance to me 

 when writing the ' Birds of Ireland.' The point that strikes me as 

 most interesting is that, when the thaw had set in, Mrs. Croasdaile 

 observed a return movement from the west, in which direction the 

 flocks of birds had gone during the snowstorm. — B. J. Usshee (Cap- 

 pagh, Co. Waterford). 



" Exmouth, South Devon, 30th December, 1874. A snowstorm 

 from the S.E., with great cold. Large flocks of Fieldfares and Red- 

 wings kept passing in a S.W. direction for some hours. 



" 31st. — Fieldfares and Bedwings still passing in flocks this morn- 

 ing to the S.W. Snow and storm from the S.E. 



" 1st January, 1875. — Thaw and rain set in. 



" 2nd. — Snow gone. 



"4th. — At 7 a.m. fine and still morning. A steady stream of 

 Fieldfares and Redwings was flying in a N.E. direction. I could see 

 them arriving across the sea from the South Devon and Cornwall 

 coasts, evidently returning from where they had gone south-westwards 

 in the snowstorm of December 30th and 31st. These flocks continued 

 to pass until 9.30 a.m. 



" N.B. — Very mild weather followed." — Anna Ceoasdaile. 

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