194 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



White Pelican (Pelecanns onocrotalus) in the Derwent Valley on Nov. 

 4th, 1905, and in a footnote on same page the statement that the species 

 has recently occurred in Bavaria in. a wild state, because Pelicans 

 (sp.), whether wild or escapes, seem to have passed over this neigh- 

 bourhood last summer. Mr. A. England, one of the partners in the 

 large Pheasant farm at Greenfield, between the border of the south- 

 west corner of Bucks, and Watlington (Oxon), told me, on Sept. 1st 

 last, that "four or five weeks" previously he had seen four Pelicans 

 flying over Greenfield in about a north-west direction. Mr. A.England 

 is not an ornithologist, but a keen-eyed practical observer ; and a 

 Pelican once seen in the " Zoo" or a travelling menagerie, or even in 

 a picture, is a bird for which it is hardly conceivable that anything else 

 could be mistaken — at any rate, when, as in this case, they passed 

 close by Mr. England ; and he particularly noted the enormous bills. 

 Greenfield is just in the line of flight for waterfowl passing up the 

 Thames, if they avoid the bend beginning at Spade Oak, Little Marlow, 

 and strike the river again a short distance below Oxford. — Alfred 

 Heneage Cocks (Poynetts, Skirmett, near Henley-on-Thames). 



Crane near Great Yarmouth. — For about three weeks, until April 

 13th, a Crane (Grus communis) frequented some fields bordering two 

 parishes not far from this town. Its plumage was immature, the long 

 dark coloured inner secondaries only just showing. "Why it remained 

 so long I do not understand, as it appeared unhurt. — J. E. Knights 

 (87, Churchill Koad, Great Yarmouth). 



Leach's Fork-tailed Petrel (Procellaria leucorrhoa) in the Isle of 

 Man. — On the afternoon of 5th December last a specimen of the above 

 species was picked up in Well Road Hill, a steep narrow street not far 

 from the sea- front of the town of Douglas. It was still alive at the 

 time of capture, but had one leg broken. It is now in possession of 

 Mr. George Corlett, of Douglas. — P. G. Ealfe (Castletown, Isle 

 of Man). 



Colour of Birds' Eyes (cf. ante, pp. 75 and 112). — Is it not the case 

 that most, if not all, birds' eyes differ with age, and how comparatively 

 few species come under observation sufficiently close that the eye can 

 be examined in life ? I have never had the rare pleasure of seeing 

 old or young of Fuligula nyroca in the flesh (though it has once 

 occurred in this locality), nor Pochards in a living state, except upon 

 the river ; but I have frequently seen specimens of the latter species 

 soon after they have been shot, and I have often remarked that the 

 finest plumaged birds had the brightest crimson or scarlet eyes ; and 



