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The Squacco Heron is represented by over twenty specimens, 

 the last of which, a male in superb condition, was shot at Pen- 

 wethers, near Truro, by T. H. Rowse on the 1st June, 1907, and 

 is now in the Museum of the Eoyal Institution of Cornwall, Truro. 

 A male American Bittern was killed by two of the clerks in the 

 employment of the Eastern Telegraph Company at Porthcurnow 

 on the 12th November, 1906. The bird was first noticed on the 

 footpath on the east side of the valley, and was chased down 

 into a large clump of whins by the side of the stream and close 

 to the beach, where it was secured with some difficulty. It 

 proved to be a male with plumage in good condition, though the 

 body was very emaciated. The Glossy Ibis is an accidental 

 autumn wanderer, and is always in immature plumage. In 

 October, 1900, it was reported from Hayle, and a month 

 later from Saltash. On the 25th October, 1906, a male in 

 second year plumage was shot close to Sennen Cove, near 

 Land's End. 



Of the five Geese recorded for the county the Grey Lag is by 

 far the scarcest. A specimen was reported from Glendurgan, 

 Falmouth, by G. H. Fox in December, 1901. Last winter two 

 or else three gaggles of the White-fronted Goose visited the west 

 of the county, and one specimen was shot by a farmer near 

 Marazion. Bewick's Swan was not uncommon last January on 

 the north coast. Three were in evidence for several days at 

 Newquay, and eleven appeared at Hayle. Swans were also 

 reported from Bucle and from Mousehole. 



The Gadwall has been procured at least six times on the 

 mainland. A male was sent in to a poulterer's shop at Bodmin in 

 January, 1905, from one of the neighbouring moors, and a female 

 was shot in the Land's End district on the 10th January, 1907. 

 An immature male of the Ferruginous Duck, the only specimen 

 recorded from the county, was killed by some boys on the beach 

 near Mylor on the 11th March, 1905, during very stormy 

 weather. An immature female Long-tailed Duck was shot near 

 Feock on the 31st December, 1906. Two specimens of the 

 scarce winter casual, the Velvet Scoter, were killed on the Hel- 

 ford River on 16th December, 1906, along with an adult male of 

 that rare American vagrant, the Surf- Scoter. 



D. Darell reported a Red Grouse that had been shot by 



