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pair of Swifts, but I am not quite certain about the second specimen, 

 as I lost sight of it behind some houses — (I believe the species usually 

 emigrate in pairs), and on the following day I saw a half-dozen or 

 more, the numbers daily increasing until the morning of the 25th, 

 when a very large congregation were careering hither and thither 

 very high in the bright sunshine. The main body seem to have 

 passed on, and those remaining are about their old nesting-places, 

 around which they sweep on rapid wing, with an occasional scream, 

 but not so jubilant and excited as they probably will be shortly when 

 their two, long, rough, w T hite eggs rest securely beneath the thatch. — 

 G. B. Corbin (Eingwood). 



Correction. — On page 158, line four, "Hoopoes" should read 

 " Whoopers," as the context indicates. — G. B. C. 



Red-legged Partridge at Yarmouth. — In ■ The Zoologist ' (1905, 

 p. 186) I contributed a note querying the possibility of a spring move- 

 ment made by the Eed-legged Partridge (Caccabis riifa). I have not 

 yet found a satisfactory solution of this debated question ; certain it is 

 that in April, and sometimes well into May, this species appears on 

 our sandhills both north and south of Yarmouth at this period of the 

 year, where it provides no small excitement for those who prowl by 

 the seashore and on the sand-dunes. Occasionally, like the Wood- 

 cock, this Partridge drops down in most unlikely places, even in 

 crowded localities, and great is the scramble to secure them. Since 

 the 1st of this month (April) four or five have been reported to me 

 as seen near the beach. One was stunned by a stone and secured by 

 the thrower ; on the 5th Whiley, a noted Gull-shooter here, picked 

 up a dead bird that had been drowned at sea and washed up by the 

 tide. I saw and examined the bird, sandy and bedraggled, soon after 

 he had found it ; it was in good condition, and must have been 

 drowned during the previous night. Whiley told me on the 6th that 

 he had plucked the carcase, and his wife had made a pie of it in 

 company with a savoury morsel of beef ; that day he had eaten it 

 for dinner, and declared it " most excellent tack," and he intended 

 "following up" the sandhills with his dog eacli morning at daybreak 

 in hope of procuring others, dead or alive. He humorously remarked 

 that lie should do this in spite of the game laws, for surely they must 

 be immigrants ! The prevalent winds for several days past had been 

 easterly and south-easterly, varying in force. — A. H. Patterson (Ibis 

 House, Great Yarmouth). 



(Edicnemus scolopax in Cumberland. — When passing along a 

 portion of the River Eden, near Carlisle, on the morning of March 



