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MISCELT.ANEOUS NOTICRS, 



They appear to me to be some days forwarder in this county — Bedfordshire, 

 than in Lincolnshire. — R. P. Alington, Dunstable, April 2dth., I80I. 



BlisrHlnntntts Untirrs. 



Hare and Babbit. — In reply to Mr. Mc'Intosh's inquiry in No. ?>, I may 

 state that a neighbour of mine has an animal stuffed, which was caught in 

 Somersetshire, which is apparently a cross between a Hare and a Eabbit; the 

 body resembling in form and colour the Hare, and the head and ears the 

 Rabbit. Hares would be very unlikely to breed if kept in Rabbit hutches. 

 — Henry Tuckett, Frencliay, Bristol. 



Waxen Chatterer, at Devizes. — A notice of the occurrence of a specimen of 

 the Waxen Chatterer last February, and which was shot on the Five-lanes 

 farm, and was preserved by Mr. Dangerfield, of Devizes, has been obligingly 

 forwarded to us by Charles 0. Hyde, Esq., Highgatc. — B. B. M., May 1th., 

 1851. 



Waxen Chatterer, at Devizes. — A splendid specimen of this bird was shot 

 at Worton, near Devizes, in the month of February last. A fine specimen 

 of the same species, was also shot in the same village, in February, I80O. — 

 B. Maysmor, Devizes, May 2S)th., 1851. 



In two sand banks on Aspley Heath, about two miles from here, the holes 

 of the Sand Martin, [Hirundo riparia,) have been taken possession of by 

 between fifty and sixty pairs of Starlings, (Sturnus vulgaris,) which have built 

 and reared (or nearly so) their first brood there, and I have no doubt but 

 what they will the second. If the poor Sand Martins, who have been so 

 unceremoniously deprived of their holes, intend building there, which they 

 probably will, as there is plenty of space still left, they must at once set 

 to work and scrape out some fresh holes, as I believe the Starlings will 

 keep possession of those they now have. — G. B. Clarke, Wohum, Beds., May 

 12th., 1851. 



One of the common Wild Ducks, in Woburn Park, last year, laid her eggs 

 and hatched them on a piece of a branch of an oak, about twenty inches in 

 length from the trunk; the remains of a branch which had been broken off 

 by a storm some time before; which projected over a pond, and about twelve 

 feet from the bottom of the tree. When the person who climbed the branch 

 reached the nest, the young ones, (with the exception of three, which he 

 caught,) tumbled, in their hurry to escape, headlong into the water below. — 

 Idem. 



Albino Meadoio Pipit, (Anthus pratensis.) — An Albino variety of this bird 

 occurred some time ago in this vicinity. It was found by a country lad, in 

 a nest of three or four fully-fledged young, of the usual colour and markings, 

 about four miles from Glasgow. On being disturbed, the young birds left the 



