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VII. 
Stoke Nayland Suffolk 
May 13 t “ 1836 
Sir 
As you had the kindness some two or three years 
ago, on my sending you a few specimens of Birds & nests with 
eggs, to offer me any Birds that I might wish to have from your 
district, I trust you will not consider me intruding in requesting 
you to procure for mo one or two of the Tern species which you 
describe as breeding on the Northumbrian coast. I am anxious to 
obtain British specimens of Sterna Dougalii, Roseate Tern, with 
their eggs, which if you could obtain for me I should feel obliged ; 
also with eggs of the Sandwich Tern : skins of the Birds I should 
prefer to mounted specimens. I killed on the 2' 1 of this month a 
male bird of the Grey-headed Yellow Wagtail, M. neglecta of 
Gould, in this parish I believe it is the only authenticated instance 
of this bird occurring in these Islands.* Mr. Doubleday, t of Epping, 
has a bird, which he believes to be of this species, killed in autumn 
on the Essex coast last year but at that season they so much 
resemble our common Yellow species that it is difficult to distin- 
guish them. I have also a specimen of the Pectoral Sandpiper, 
Tringa pectoralis, killed, on the most undoubted authority, on the 
borders of Breydon Broad near Yarmouth. A notice of it I per- 
ceive is given with a plate in a supplementary part lately published 
to Bewick’s work by T. C. Eyton.§ The Bird attracted the notice of 
* It was doubtless from the information contained in the present letter 
that notice of the occurrence of this bird, and of the Sandpiper directly after 
mentioned, was inserted in the Magazine of Zoology and Botany (i. p. 200), 
of which Selby was one of the editors. 
f Henry Doubleday, F.L.S., a well-known ornithologist and entomologist, 
died at an advanced age in 1S75. 
I According to the original record {Mag. Nat. Hist. viii. p. 617) it was 
killed in 1834 ; but this may be wrong, as is also the reference to the volume 
which contains the notice (Yarrell, Brit. B. ed. 4, i. p. 560). 
§ The first record of this specimen seems to be by Mr. Jenyns (Man. 
Br. Vertebr. p. 210). Mr. Eyton subsequently described and figured a 
foreign specimen (Rar. Br. B. p. 42). Hoy himself subsequently noticed 
it at greater length in 1S37 (Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, i. p. 216). 
