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webs being blackish ; these were males. The other two had greenish 

 yellow-tinted toes. I suggested these were females, and this proved to 

 be so on dissection. The cap was reddish brown, and the beak scarlet- 

 lake. We had a look at the windpipe, and were much struck with its 

 peculiarities of conformation. I made a rough water-colour sketch of 

 the best bird, and obtained three large parasites, which, under the 

 microscope, look hairy and forbidding, with the suggestion of much 

 tenacity of purpose. Had I been earlier, Mr. Saunders remarked, I 

 could have had more, and been welcome to them, for they made things 

 lively for him for a time. According to the 'Field ' of Sept. 15th, two 

 birds of this species were shot on the 8th on Hickling Broad by Alfred 

 Nudd, keeper to Mr. S. H. Smith, a duck being secured, but the drake 

 was not recovered until two days later, and was consequently spoiled. 

 In all probability these belonged to the same flock. Mr. J. H. Gurney, 

 in suggesting the likelihood of the heat-wave having brought them 

 hither, remarked that at any rate " the poor things met with a warm 

 reception when they came." The prevailing winds had for some time 

 previous been southerly. — Aethur H. Patterson (Ibis House, Great 

 Yarmouth). 



Hybrid Black-game. — Eeferring to Rev. F. C. Jourdain's list of 

 Black-game-Pheasant hybrids (No. 27), will you allow me to say that 

 the bird in Mr. Le Strange's collection was shot at Snettisham about 

 the year 1850, as stated in the ' Birds of Norfolk,' vol. i. p. 375, and 

 not in 1876 ? It was given to Mr. Le Strange by the widow of Capt. 

 Campbell, who had the Snettisham shooting about the year 1850, 

 and is the only known Norfolk hybrid between these two species. I 

 mention this as the great disparity of dates (1850 and 1876) might 

 lead to the impression that two distinct individuals were referred to. 

 It is difficult to say when the indigenous race of Black-game became 

 extinct in this country, but probably one of the last was a Greyhen, 

 seen by the writer, which was killed in 1852 near Lynn. Mr. 

 Le Strange tells me that the last he saw in Norfolk was about the 

 year 1872 or 1873, when shooting with the late Mr. Anthony Hamond 

 at Leziate, or Bawsey, near Lynn ; but many unsuccessful attempts 

 to reintroduce this fine bird into Norfolk have been made of late 

 years. — Thos. Southwell (Norwich). 



Baillon's Crake (Porzana bailloni) near Stockport. — An adult 

 male Baillon's Crake was captured alive in the neighbourhood of 

 Stockport, Cheshire, in May, 1905. The bird subsequently came into 

 the possession of Dr. Charles Cairnie, of Manchester, who showed it 

 to Mr. Charles Oldham and me. The actual locality where it was 



