[RED-NECKED PHALAROPE (Phalaropus lobatus).-One recorded from Marlborough in 1869 (Birds of Wiltshire, p. 450) turns out to be a Grey Phalarope (M.C.N.H., 1904).]

WHIMBREL (Numenius phaeopus).-One was caught wounded on August 20th, 1877, and on May 15th, 1890, five were seen and two shot on the Downs near Kennet (M.C.N.H.).

COMMON SNIPE (Gallinago gallinago).—Two nests were found near Marlborough, 1909 (M.C.N.H. and Brit. B., III., p. 29), and Mr. Vaughan tells me it almost certainly nested at Milton in 1913. Dr. Penrose recorded an exceptionally early nest at Downton, March 15th, 1912 (Brit. B., V., p. 336.

BLACK TERN (Hydrochelidon nigra).—Mr. Cambridge Phillips tells me of one at Chippenham in 1858; a pair were seen at Ramsbury Park on May 16th, 1901 (M.C.N.H.), and several were seen at Amesbury in Aug., 1911.

GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULL (Larus marinus).—I saw one on the Downs above Alton White Horse on April 23rd, 1910. Mr. Harrison tells me of an adult pair which haunted Swindon Sewage Farm for more than a month in Dec., 1906, and that he has more than once seen immature birds passing over.

KITTIWAKE GULL (Rissa tridactyla).—One was found dead in Savernake on Feb. 5th, 1890, and a young one was shot on the Canal Reservoir near Wolfhall on July 17th, 1890 (M.C.N.H.).

COMMON GUILLEMOT (Uria troille).—The Blackmore Museum has a specimen shot at Amesbury in 1888.

LITTLE AUK (Alle alle).-"Two, one about 1855" (M.C.N.H.). One at Winterbourne during 1912 "wreck" (Brit. B., VI., p. 69), and Mr. Rawlence tells me that one was picked up in Grovely Wood on Dec. 11th, 1912.

PUFFIN (Fratercula arctica).-Six or seven were seen and one killed by wire, on Nov., 20th 1893, after a three days' gale from the north, at Codford St. Mary (W.A.M., XXXVII., p. 185).

GREAT BUSTARD (Otis tarda).-A female was shot on Feb. 4th, 1891, near Chippenham (Field, Feb. 28th, 1891).

LITTLE BUSTARD (Otis tetrax).-One was put up on Sept. 27th, 1897, between Roche Court and Over Wallop on Salisbury Plain (Salisbury Journal, Oct. 16th, 1897), and "one was moved a fortnight since on Salisbury Plain, near Market Lavington" (Field, Nov. 6th, 1897)-presumably the same bird. Mr. James Flower, of Chilmark, has one killed there about 1905 or 1906, and a male in summer plumage was shot at Avebury on April 26th, 1909 (W.A.M., XXXVI., p. 143).

SPOTTED CRAKE (Porzana porzana).—Mr. Ward has one killed by telegraph wires at Cherhill in May, 1887, one was killed in Marlborough on April 1st, 1890, and another on Aug. 2nd, 1896, in a similar manner (M.C.N.H.). Finally Mr. Harrison tells me that he has twice seen this bird at Lydiard Millicent, viz., on Oct. 22nd, 1906, and on Oct. 13th, 1911.

BLACK GROUSE (Lyrurus tetrix).-A Greyhen was killed against wire near Warminster on April 8th, 1906 (Field, April 14th, 1906). The Hand-List of British Birds says "some Wilts," but on what authority I know not. (In a footnote to my paper the authors of the "Hand-List" say :-"See Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed., p. 493; we had no later information.-EDS.")

QUAIL (Coturnix coturnix).—Many 1893 (Field, Sept. 30th, Oct. 7th, and Nov. 18th, 1893). Nest with ten eggs at Aldbourne in June, 1907 (W.A.M., XXXV., p. 318), eight in Sept. and Oct., 1909 (Bull. B.O.C.). Some reported in autumn, 1913.

APPENDIX.

List of the birds which have occurred in Wiltshire. Those known to have nested in the county are marked by an asterisk, while those in square brackets are included in Smith's "Birds of Wiltshire," but are not admitted by the present writer.

THE MAMMALS OF WILTSHIRE,

By G. BATHURST HONY.

The object of the present paper is rather to obtain more precise information as to our Wiltshire mammals than to impart it. There are many species, particularly of Bats, which have been recorded from all the surrounding counties, but not from Wiltshire, or perhaps a single example has been obtained here. Such a state of affairs can only be accounted for by saying that no one has yet worked at our inammals. I have here collected most of the published records in order to draw attention to their paucity. The Dormouse is the only addition I have been able to make. I should specially like to thank the Rev. E. H. Goddard, of Clyffe Pypard, for many notes of interest.

In the following pages "Generally distributed" must of course be taken to mean in suitable localities only, and even then it is in some cases perhaps too wide a term, and is used simply owing to lack of definite information. M.C.N.H.S. and W.A M. are used to represent the Marlborough College Natural History Society's Report and the Wiltshire Archæological and Natural History Magazine respectively. The order and nomenclature followed is that of the new British Museum Catalogue of the Mammals of Western Europe; these names may seem strange in many cases, but they have been revised strictly in accordance with the International Code for Zoological Nomenclature, which is the only way of reaching uniformity.

Order INSECTIVORA.

Family Talpidae.

MOLE (Talpa europaea).—Generally distributed.

Family Soricidae.

COMMON SHREW (Sorex araneus).-Generally distributed.

LESSER SHREW (Sorex minutus).-One was picked up in Savernake Forest on October 29th, 1910 (M.C.N.H.S.); I picked up a