THE YOUNG 



NATURilLIST. 



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must have worked immensely hard to get 

 this store together, as the horse-beans had 

 to be conveyed fourteen yards, the broad- 

 beans originally grew four-and-twenty yards 

 off, and the nuts eighteen or nineteen, be- 

 sides having each to be carried up the 

 slanting trunk to the entrance of the maga- 

 zine, which was about a foot and a half 

 from the ground. To gain a still better 

 notion of the industry of these little creatures 

 we must, of couse, double the above mea- 

 surements to allow for the journeys to and 

 fro. The proprietor of the magazine did 

 not put in an appearance, but there is no 

 doubt that had he been seen and properly 

 identified he would have proved a veritable 

 specimen of the long-tailed, long-whiskered, 

 black-eyed, ruddy-coated wood mouse (Miis 

 sylvaticiisJ. — W. H. Warner, Standlake, 

 Witney, Oxon. 



BIRDS. 



Eagle in Herefordshird (p. 21). — As 

 to the "eagle" seen by Miss Hutchinson, 

 it, unless the measurements given are wrong, 

 was more likely to have been a buzzard of 

 some sort. — F. Bond. 



Owl in Rigging of a Ship. — My brother, 

 Capt. T. S. Land, of the S.S. "City of 

 Brussels," informs me that early in Novem- 

 ber a large white owl came and rested on 

 the rigging of his ship, it being at the time 

 about 600 miles from the nearest land — 

 Cape Race, Newfoundland. The bird was 

 captured by one of the sailors and eventu- 

 ally became the property of one of the lady 

 passengers. Capt. Land says that besides 

 the usual sea-birds, starlings, larks, and 

 hawks often came on board, but he has 

 never had a visit from an owl before. — F. N. 

 Pierce, Liverpool. 



Great Northern Diver, &c., at Poole. 

 I have just received a fine specimen of the 

 Great Northern Diver. It is a female in 

 the mature winter plumage, weighing 8| lbs. 

 Its stomach contained the remains of some 



small fishes. I also received three Shoveller 

 Ducks — an adult male and female and an 

 immature male — and two female Red- 

 breasted Mergansers. All these birds were 

 shot by a punter on i8th November in 

 Poole Harbour. — G. A. Marriott, Lewis- 

 ham, Kent. 



Rare Birds at Harwich. 



Little Bustard. — One seen on the 21st 

 November frequented the large fields of 

 Ramsey and Little Oakley for more than a 

 week and escaped the many attempts at its 

 destruction. 



Shore Larks. — A large flight of these 

 birds have arrived on this part of the coast 

 and frequent the salt marshes. Thirty-five 

 have been shot. 



Eared Grebe. — Two specimens of this 

 grebe were shot on the River Stour on the 

 27th November. 



Black-throated Diver. — Two in winter 

 plumage were shot on the River Stour on 

 the 7th December. 



Great Crested Grebe. — Two were 

 killed at one shot on the River Stour on the 

 nth December still retaining a portion of 

 their crests. 



Waxwing. — A single specimen of this 

 very rare bird was seen in a garden in 

 Dovercourt on thh 13th December. — F. 

 Kerry, Harwich. 



INSECTS. 



COLEOPTERA. 



Error in Plate i.— There is an error in 

 plate I. Carabus nemoralU ought to be 

 monilis and vice versa. 0. nemoralis is the 

 broad insect; 0. monilis the green insect 

 with rows of tubercles.— Rev. W. W. Fow- 

 ler, The School House, Lincoln. 



Anthicus bimaculatus.— I took a single 

 specimen of this insect on the Crosby Sand- 



