‘THE BIRDS OF DEVON.’ 31 
Shearwaters were seen in the Channel off the south coast of Devon by 
Mr. Elliot in July 1895. 
Black-throated Diver (p. 412). 
Two more adults, in full summer plumage, were taken in a trammel- 
net at Portscatho, in Cornwall, in May 1892, as we were informed by the 
Rev. G. C. Green, of Modbury :—“ These, I am told, are to be shown in 
some exhibition of Cornish Natural History which is to be held shortly ” 
(tr litt. August 6th, 1892). 
Red-necked Grebe (p. 417). 
In the ‘Zoologist’ for 1892, p. 331, Mr. E. A. 8. Elliot relates the 
appearance of a young Red-necked Grebe near the New Bridge at Kings- 
bridge during the month of July in that year. To his regret it was shot 
on the lst August and brought to him. We have seen it, and consider 
that, from the very immature condition of plumage, it is extremely un- 
likely that it could have wandered far from where it was hatched, and 
that there is justification for Mr. Elliot’s opinion that it had strayed from 
a nest on Slapton Ley. Its cheeks are very prettily striped with dark 
lines, like all the species of Grebes in their nesting plumage. 
Common Guillemot (p. 427). 
Mr. E. A. 8. Elliot shot a singular variety of the Common Guillemot 
on the Kingsbridge Estuary in August 1894, which he showed to us. It 
is a large specimen, and has one side of the head distinctly ‘ bridled ” 
or “ringed” with a white line curving down the neck from the eye, 
while the other side is without any trace of this marking. ‘This bird 
supplies an example of what Professor Newton (in his article on Di- 
morphism, in his ‘ Dictionary of Birds,’ Part 1. p. 149) supposed did not 
exist, ‘“‘an example which shows intermediate conditions ” between the 
Bridled Guillemot and those of normal plumage. 
American Yellow-billed Cuckoo (p. 124). 
On October 5, 1895, a specimen of this species was picked up dead in 
a garden near Bridport, in Dorsetshire, and two days later was examined 
by Mr. J. E. Harting in the flesh (Zool. 1895, p. 376). This makes the 
third example that has been obtained in the 8.W. Peninsula, and is an 
addition to the Dorset list of birds. 
