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Wood, the seat of W. Peel, Esq, — Clement Jackson, East Looe, September 

 lOtL, 1851. 



There is a Heronry at Carton, Maynooth, the seat of Ireland's only Duke. 

 —G, B. Clarice, Wobuni, Beds., September 20th., 1851. 



In addition to the Heronries mentioned in "The Naturalist," by J, Mc'Intosh, 

 Esq., I may notice two in this locality: — One in a wood belonging to Lady 

 Vane, on the margin of Bassenthwaite Lake, seven miles from Keswick, 

 Cumberland; the other on a small island in Rydal Lake, the property of 

 Lady le Fleming, Rydal Hall, Westmoreland. — William Greenip. 



Pied Blackbird, (Merula vulgaris.) — I have now before me a preserved 

 specimen of the common Blackbird, shot by the gamekeeper of Thomas 

 Montgomery, Esq., of Garboldisham, in the winter of about 1838. The neck 

 and head are partially covered with white feathers. I should think from the 

 appearance of the plumage that he was a young bird. The gamekeeper told 

 me he was very shy and nimble, and gave him much trouble to shoot. — 

 U. C. Nunn, Diss, Norfolk, August Ath., 1851. 



Partridges. — We are informed, says a correspondent in the ^'Norfolk News," 

 by a gentleman who has a personal knowledge of the fact, that a nest of 

 Partridges was hatched at Ditchingham, near Bungay, between the 13th. and 

 18th. of April. We believe this to be one of the earliest dates on which 

 such an event has taken place. — Idem. 



The Hawfinch, (Coccothraustes vulgaris,) breeding in Bedfordshire.- — The 

 second week in July of this year, four full-grown young Hawfinches were shot 

 at Woburn, Beds., which I have no doubt were bred in some of the Avoods 

 or plantations surrounding us; and an old female bird was shot about two 

 miles from here in the same week. I believe they breed regularly in the 

 woods and plantations about here, as there is not a summer passes over without 

 some of them being shot; and in the winter there are plenty of them both 

 here and in the surrounding neighbourhood. — George B, Clarke, Woburn, Beds., 

 August 8th., 1851. 



Capture of the Rose-coloured Pastor, (Pastor roseus.) — This remarkably rare 

 bird was recently shot at Coatham, near Redcar, and is now in the possession 

 of C. C. Oxley, Esq. of the latter place. — D. Ferguson, Redcar, October 8th., 

 1851. 



Occurrence of the . Rose-coloured Pastor, (Pastor roseus,) — A fine adult 

 female bird of this rare species was shot about the middle of last June, at 

 Tamerton, a village five miles distant from Plymouth. The only information 

 I could obtain as to its habits was that it much frequented a ploughed field. 

 — R. A. Julian, Jun., Laira House, Plymouth, August 2Gth., 1851. 



^^ Occurrence of the Green Sandpiper, (Totanus ochropus.) — I shot a young bird 



of this species, July 31st., near Crabtree, at the mouth of the River Plym, 



