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given to me by the native who used to shoot birds for my father, this 

 Owl could only have been an example of the Scops Owl. Unfortu- 

 nately the bird died, and there were no means of sending it to me, and 

 none of the keepers knew how to skin or preserve it, and it never 

 occurred to them to keep a wing or even some feathers ; so the bird 

 was lost. 



King- Ouzel (Ttirdus torqitatus). — The only occasion on which I 

 have seen this bird in Shetland was on Oct. 27th at Halligarth, when 

 the bird rose from a bush almost within arm's length of me, and settled 

 on a tree close at hand. I was only armed with a telescope, and while 

 having a good look at the bird a couple of Merlins and some Hooded 

 Crows came careering overhead, and scared the Ouzel away. It just 

 seemed to fall away from the branch on which it was sitting, and was 

 immediately lost to sight. 



Swan (Whooper) [Cygnus musicus). — Two at Baltasound, Oct. 27th. 



Book (Corvus frugilegus). — A few seen on Nov. 7th. 



Bullfinch (Pyrrkula europcea). — One shot on Nov. 21st. The bird 

 was a male in fine plumage, measuring 6*12 in., and weighing one 

 ounce and seventy grains. — T. Edmondston Saxby (Halligarth, Balta- 

 sound). 



Black-throated Diver (Colymbus arcticus) at Woburn. — On 

 Tuesday last (Jan. 9th) a Black-throated Diver, which I had noticed 

 for several days on one of our ponds, was found dead, I took it to 

 the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, where it was pro- 

 nounced to be a young bird. — J. W. Bedford (Duchess of Bedford) 

 (Woburn Abbey, Woburn). 



PISCES. 



Flying Fish near Ramsgate. — Seldom is one placed in the position 

 of public critic of one's own defects or omissions, but into that predica- 

 ment I am herewith landed ; so I need not spare the rod, knowing on 

 whose shoulders it falls. In a communication to ' The Zoologist ' (1905, 

 p. 401), among other remarks, I ventured to say, relative to the Med- 

 way and Swale specimens : — " In so far as we are aware, the two 

 fishes in question are the only authentic evidence of the presence of 

 species of Flying Fish (Exoccetus) on the Kent shores." This state- 

 ment, though made quite sincerely at the time, nevertheless has now 

 to be refuted. Since the publication in question I have quite acci- 

 dentally come across the record of a capture on the Kent coast some 

 forty years ago. This appeared in ' Land and Water,' vol. iv. p. 206 

 (Oct. 19th, 1867). In a paragraph signed "A Soldier" it narrates how 



