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Magpie — Corms pica. — Specimen shot at Woolley Hall, near Barns- 

 ley. In place of the normal black colour it is of a dirty white. 



EiNGDOVE — Columba palumbtis. — This is a very beautiful specimen, of 

 a pure whits all over. 



Red Grouse — Tetrao scoticus {Lagopus). — Two specimens, male and 

 female, shot on the Duke of Devonshire's estate, above Halifax. 

 The hen shot on the 12th August is of a pale buff colour ; the cock 

 (shot a few weeks later), of a light dun colour. Another specimen, 

 shot on Slaithwaite moor, and presented to me by the late John 

 Horsfall, Esq., has a light brown body, with dun or ashen-coloured 

 wing coverts and tail. 



Partridge — Perdix cinerea. — I have four varieties of this bird : one, 

 a dark, small variety, the ordinary form of our locality on the moor 

 edges ; another, a light variety of unusually large size, from the 

 North Riding ; the third, an albino shot near Doncaster ; the 

 fourth is of the normal colouring, with white wings and partially 

 white breast. 



Parkton Grove, Honley, 

 Nov. 24th, 1879. 



NOTES ON BIRDS OBSERVED IN DUTCH BRABANT. 

 By Wm. Eagle Clarke. 



May 5th to 19th, 1879. 

 The following observations were made during an oological trip in 

 south-eastern Holland in tbe month of May last ; and although not 

 British, I venture to think they will be both interesting and useful 

 to ornithologists, inasmuch as in every instance the species enume- 

 rated occupies a place in the British, and (with one or two exceptions) 

 the Yorkshire, list. 



I have thought it desirable to give the notes under the head of the 

 various species, deeming this to be the best and most concise form. 

 The list thus given should afford a fair idea of the ornithology of the 

 district, there being four of us, and ornithology received our undivided 

 attention during a fortnight's sojourn. 



Leaving Leeds on the morning of Monday the 5th of May, and 

 travelling via London, Queenborough, Flushing, Middlebourg, Breda, 

 Boxtel, Eindhoven, we arrived at Yalkenswaard — our destination — 

 by continuous travelling, about noon on the following day. 



Yalkenswaard, our headquarters, is a village with about 1300 



