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it had evidently struck one of the wires just above the bill. We 

 took it home, and put it in an empty stable, where it sat rather sadly 

 in the corner of a stall. In a few days it could perch on the log 

 which we gave it to sit on ; one or two days after that it flew up on 

 to the barricade we had put at the end of the stall. After that it 

 mended apace, and was soon flying strongly up and down the stable 

 and perching on the divisions of the stalls. The leg was feeble for 

 some time but mended most astonishingly quickly, and by the 23rd 

 November it was quite strong, and we were able to release the bird. 

 It was a beautiful specimen : from the plumage we thought it an 

 immature bird. It became very tame, and would take its food from 

 the hand. It preferred rabbits' and fowls' livers and pieces of meat, 

 but would pluck and eat Sparrows if hungry enough. It uttered a 

 curious, long, wild note, whew — ew — ew — ew — , very long drawn out, 

 and, although loud, beautifully modulated and not shrill. This cry 

 was chiefly uttered in the morning, and we thought more often on 

 frosty days. When we first got it, its tail was rather draggled, as, 

 owing to its broken leg it could not stand up, but as soon as it was 

 able to perch, it preened itself carefully, and was quite beautiful 

 when we released it. When we brought it food it used to come 

 fluttering to meet us with its feathers puffed out, showing the 

 chocolate brown band on the lower breast and its feathered legs 

 very distinctly. — Evelyn V. Baxter and Leonora Jeffrey 

 RiNTOUL, Largo. 



Honey Buzzard in Berwickshire. — A Honey Buzzard {Pernis 

 apivorus) was shot in this district about the middle of July last. 

 This bird is rare in Berwickshire, and no other example has passed 

 through the local bird-stufier's hands during an experience of thirty 

 years. The sex was not ascertained, but from the wing-measure- 

 ments the bird appears to have been a female. — T. G. Laidlaw, 

 Duns. 



Bernicle Goose in Berwickshire. — A Bernicle Goose 

 {Branta leucopsis) was shot at Hule Moss, Greenlaw, on the 3rd 

 November last. This is not a common bird on the east coast of 

 Scotland, and it is also exceptional to find one wandering so far 

 inland : from where the bird was shot, the sea is about twenty miles 

 distant. The Hule Moss is a winter haunt of the Pink-footed 

 Goose, and the Bernicle was in company with some birds of that 

 species when it was secured. — T. G. Laidlaw, Duns. 



Landrail at St Kilda. — In British Birds for February, 

 R. H. Read records that he obtained a Landrail at St Kilda on 



