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The most curious cry of the Rook I ever heard was once while passing 

 through a rookery, at the beginning of the building season. I found a 

 Rook lying at the foot of a tree in a dying state, but without any 

 marks of violence. Taking it up, I put it on a stone wall, and had 

 scarcely left the spot when another descended from a tree, making several 

 sweeps over its head, repeating each time a curious and mournful cry. 

 On returning, half an hour afterwards, I found that the bird was dead. — 

 W. G. G. 



An Eagle Shot. — A large Eagle, which has been flying about in the 

 vicinity of Arundel, to the terror of many, was shot on Friday last by 

 Mr. W. Ottley, the head gamekeeper of His Grace the Duke of Norfolk. 

 Since the singular visitor has been in the neighbourhood he has been aimed 

 at by many sportsmen, who have been unsuccessful in bringing him down. 

 We believe His Grace has on more than one occasion had an unsuccessful 

 shot. Being a strong bird, and usually flying very high, it required some 

 considerable force to kill him. On Friday last, however, Mr. Ottley, who 

 was in a plantation in Arundel Park, between Bevis's Grave and the 

 walnut trees, had a good shot, and succeeded in wounding him. The bird 

 struggled considerably, and at length perched on a tree, from which he 

 was soon levelled, and taken to the Castle, where, by direction of His Grace 

 the Duke of Norfolk, he was laid out to be shewn to any one who chose 

 to go and see him. After this the Eagle was sent to Mr. Ledbeater, the 

 ornithologist, of London, to be stuffed. He turns out to be a young male 

 of the White-tailed Sea-Eagle, and not a Golden Eagle, as was supposed. 

 Mr. Ledbeater is also of opinion that it is a bird of the first year. Al- 

 though the bird is of such a large size, measuring with its wing expanded 

 seven feet five inches, it weighs barely ten pounds. The length from the 

 beak to the tail is three feet, and the breadth across the shoulders one foot. 

 The beak is three inches and a half long, and the centre talon two inches. 

 The quill feather from the pinion joint measures twenty-three inches and a 

 quarter. Its principal haunt was near the South Wood and Houghton 

 chalk pit, and many mutilated rabbits have been picked up which have 

 been killed by the distinguished visitor since he has been in the neigh- 

 bourhood. — West Sussex Gazette. — From "The Times," Wednesday, Feb. 

 24th., 1858. 



A totally New Idea. — It has occurred to me that some honest man among 

 the entomologists might earn a good livelihood as follows; namely, if he 

 lives in London, where he would have access to the British Museum and 

 its collections. I say then that a great desideratum is, especially among 

 entomologists in the country, and particularly with those who have other 



