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indebted to the Eev. Charles Waldy, rector of Sutton-on-Der- 
went for the news of the capture of ‘‘Manx’s Shearwater, 
Procellaria Puthnns,” which was brought to him August 29th, 
1881, by George Hardcastle, of that village, who had caught 
it in some long grass at Woodhouse; there were others with it, 
which flew away with great rapidity. 
He is also indebted to Frank Leeman, Esq., for information 
of the capture of “ White’s Thrush, Turdus Whitei,” (Gould’s 
Birds of Europe, part 21; Eyton’s rarer British Birds, page 92,) 
which was shot by a friend in his company at Waplington 
Manor, near Pocklington, on the 28th December, 1881. Mr. 
Leeman describes it as rising singly and wildly, as if startled 
suddenly, from a low fir plantation that was swampy, but can¬ 
not say whether from a branch or the ground ; it was taken 
for a Snipe at first, a Woodcock was the only other bird in the 
plantation, not far from a farm-house and stack-yard. This 
bird is very rare, and the Cimator only recognises two other 
British Specimens, one shot by Lord Malmesbury near Christ 
Church January, 1828, and the other belonging to Mr. Bigge, of 
Hampton Cornd, shot in the New Forest; it is found in the 
East, but is not common anywhere. Being shot in the vicinity of 
York, it would be a great addition to the Eudston Collection. 
The Curator has seen also in Mr. Eipley’s shop two Ducks 
sent there by Mr. Michell, of Forcett Park, near Darlington, 
neither of which, if not Hybrids, he can make out, of which 
he hopes hereafter to give an account.* 
Department of Comparative Anatomy. —The most im¬ 
portant additions to the Osteological Collection has been the 
skeleton of the celebrated race-horse “ Blink Bonny,” which 
was presented by Mr. William I’Anson, and has been mounted 
by Mr. Gerard in the centre of the Cross Eoom near the Irish 
Elk. 
The skeleton of the whale, Baloenoptera rostrata, which 
had been for some time in the cellar, has been placed in a good 
position on the top of one of the wall cases in the Osteological 
room. 
*Since writing the above the ducks were sent to Mr. Schlater, of the Zoological 
Society, who has pronounced one to be “ (Edemia nigra ," and the other “ FuUgula 
ferina ," both Hybrids. 
