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wings, possibly may have been the somewhat longer plumules, 
or filaments, covering thte scapulars. At ail events, it seems 
worth while to direct attention to what may have been an 
anticipation of Mr. Brigham's observation. 
I am fee., 
J. E. Harting. 
Sirs, —The first occurrence in England of so great a waif 
as Saxicola deserti may be deemed worthy of record in the 
pages of ‘ The Ibis/ 
The bird in question was shot between the villages of 
Easington and Kilnsea, on the Holderness coast of York¬ 
shire, on the 17th of October last, and forwarded to me as a 
light variety of Saxicola cenanthe. The specimen is a young 
female, though too much injured to be proved such by dis¬ 
section, and was exhibited on my behalf by Mr. H. E. 
Dresser at the Meeting of the Zoological Society of London 
on the 17th of November, 1885. 
Yours &c., 
Wm. Eagle Clarke. 
18 Claremont Road, Headingley, Leeds. 
Dec. 10,1885. 
The Birds of Corea. —A new field is now open to naturalists 
in Corea, of the ornithology of which it may be said that 
absolutely nothing is known. It is evident, from Vice-Consul 
Cartes's recently published narrative of his journey from Soul 
to the Phyong-Kang Gold-washings, that there is no difficulty 
in traversing the country. It is also evident that interesting 
birds are to be found there, from the subjoined passage in the 
Vice-Consul's Report:— 
“The chain of granite mountains which incloses Soul came 
to an end on the evening of our first day's march, and brought 
us into a more picturesque, though less open country. Away 
to the east lay the Amsan hills, where the King is said to 
have his hunting-parties, and in which are many fir woods of 
considerable extent. In one of these was a colony of Egrets, 
towards which hundreds of birds were finding their way, 
