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without a feather of any other colour, and which was recently killed in that city 
This bird was one of a brood of four, of which the three others were of the 
common kind. It presents in the most perfect manner all the characters of 
albinism: the claws and beak are red, and the same colour surrounds the eyes.— 
T. B. Hall, Woodside , Liverpool, March 1, 1838. 
Occurrence of the Garrulous Roller (Coracias garrula) near Scarbo¬ 
rough.— In 1832 one of these accidental stragglers—a bird of exquisite beauty— 
was shot while feeding upon a heap of manure in a Turnip-field at Seamer, four 
miles from Scarborough, and was purchased for the museum of that town.— 
Patrick Hawkridge, Scarborough , Aug. 7, 1837. 
The I-Iooper Swan. —On Tuesday last, at Crabbet Park, Sussex, the seat of 
F. S. Blunt, Esq., fourteen wild Swans came and settled upon the lake in front 
of the house. Mr. Blunt, with a single ball in his gun, levelled and killed two 
of them; one measured eight feet across the wings, and weighed 19lbs.; the 
other weighed 13lbs.— Star in the East , Feb. 10, 1838.—[[Dr. Fleming gives the 
weight of the adult Hooper Swan as 25 lbs. The difference between the weight 
of the two individuals mentioned in the above extract is remarkable. The frozen 
state of the lakes and meres in every part of the country would account for a 
certain loss of flesh, but so considerable a discrepancy in two individuals shot out 
of the same flock seems inexplicable, unless—which is scarcely probable—the 
smaller bird should turn out to be Bewick’s Swan. —Ed. 
Pigeon frozen on its Perch. —A circumstance perhaps unprecedented in the 
annals of freezing, was discovered here last week. A person found in this neigh¬ 
bourhood (Crieff) a wild Pigeon literally frozen to the branch of a tree, and so 
intense was the freeze, that the individual cut the branch, and carried the Pigeon 
home in that state alive.— Scotch Paper , Feb. 13, 1838. 
Kingfisher frozen to Death. —On Saturday last, a Kingfisher, handsomely 
feathered, was discovered with its claws frozen to the bough of a tree on the 
canal side, near this town. It was quite dead ; and attached to each claw was a 
piece of ice.— North Derbyshire Chronicle , Feb. (?), 1838. 
Red-breasted Merganser.— A fine specimen of the Dun Diver was shot at 
Rossington, on Friday last, by John Elvidge, the game-keeper of the Rossington 
manor, and may be seen at Mr. Hodgson’s, game-dealer, in St. Sepulchre-gate. — 
Doncaster Gazette , Jan. 19, 1838. [By the “Dun Diver” we presume the Red¬ 
breasted Merganser ( Mergus serrator) is meant. —Ed. Nat.~\ 
Instance of extraordinary Fecundity in the Sheep— Mr. Rawlings, of 
Stogursey, Somersetshire, had a ewe that last year produced six lambs, and all 
lived; this year the same ewe produced five lambs, but all of which, as well as 
the ewe, died.— Taunton Courier , Feb. 14, 1838. 
The Death’s-head Moth. —-One of these monsters of the insect world was 
