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60 some minute white grits. The bird was very fat. I have since learned that a considerable number were always to be found on the irrigation land near this town last winter. A friend who owns the shooting informed me that he must have shot close upon twenty couple last year. — (Bedford).

—About the end of November last a gamekeeper near Mansfield picked up a Little Auk under the telegraphwires, which had evidently killed itself by flying against them. The bird haviug been carried about for several days was in a bad state, and the back of the head had been nearly cut off by the wire. I am having it set up, however, as well as it can be done, for it is remarkable that such a bird should be found so far inland, the place being quite fifty miles from the sea. Its occurrence, no doubt, is due to the rough winds we had about that time. A boy going into the birdstuffer's a few days afterwards, on seeing the bird, said he had seen another like it, which was found about the same time.— (Rainworth Lodge, Mansfield).

—On the 31st December I killed a Kittiwake within the borough boundaries of this town. I was returning home, and saw the bird skimming over a grass-field by the road. Not knowing what it was, I shot it, when it proved to be an adult bird of the above species. Owing to the open weather, wild fowl are scarce; but Golden Plovers and Lapwings are very common. I have not heard of any rarities. — (Bedford).

—If not too late, I should feel obliged by your permitting me to point out the following errors in my "Birds of the Moy Estuary" (3rd ser., vol. i.):—P. 234, Greenland Falcon; it was in the winter of 1862–63, instead of 1868, that the Belmullet bird was obtained. P. 237, Missel Thrush; for "seen in parks" read "seen in flocks" in September they are often mistaken for Fieldfares. P. 287, Green Sandpiper; it was on the 25th August, 1873, not 1874, that Mr. More shot his specimen of this bird. P. 287, Greenshank; for "probably breeds on some of the little bay-lakes" read "bog-lakes."— (Moyview, Ballina, County Mayo).

—A very fine specimen of the above fish, Leptocephalus Morrisii, over six inches in length, was picked up from the beach at Pennan (sometimes spelt "Pennant") on January 8th, by Mr. Ferguson, Inspector of the Coastguard Station there. It was alive when found and continued so for some time after. I am not aware if the species has been found on the Aberdeenshire coast before, but