Corrections April 30

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An article on Thursday about the shooting death of an unarmed young black man in Georgia gave an unofficial height from the Toombs County Sherriff's Office for Norman Neesmith, who killed the young man. While the authorities said Mr. Neesmith is 6-foot-2, that was the height he gave them. As a height chart in an accompanying picture taken during his booking showed, he is closer to 5-foot-11.

Published: April 30, 2012

NATIONAL

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An article on Friday about a magnetic sense that helps birds navigate misidentified an iron-containing substance found in a recent analysis of beaks. It is ferrihydrite, not magnetite. (The study found that the cells containing the substance were not involved in navigation.)

BUSINESS DAY

The listing of magazine ad pages in the Most Wanted chart last Monday included incorrect percentage-change figures for three magazines. Texas Monthly had an increase of 25.6 percent, not 157.8 percent, from May 2011 to May 2012; Chicago magazine had a decline of 9.3 percent, not a gain of 70.9 percent; and People en Español had a decline of 14.7 percent, not a gain of 97.9 percent. A corrected chart can be found at nytimes.com/media .

SPORTS

An article on April 20 about safety concerns in ocean racing events in the wake of five recent deaths in the Full Crew Farallones Race off San Francisco misstated the number of sailors who died during the 1982 Doublehanded Farallones race, which took place in the same area. Four sailors, not eight, died in the race.

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