30 LOCAL OBSERVATION 



" March 12th, 1887. 

 " Are you aware that, about the year 1 808, a gamekeeper 

 of the name of Agars, then in the employ of W. Thos. 

 St. Quintin, Esq., of Lowthorpe and Scampston Hall 

 (Yorkshire), secured eleven great bustards, as the result 

 of one shot from behind a stalking horse.''"' 



"September 22nd, 1895. 



" Three polecats were killed near this place early this 

 year. I can remember them nearly as common as stoats, 

 but of late years we seldom get hold of more than two 

 in three or four years. No marten has been killed in 

 this county to my knowledge for some ten or twelve 

 years, or for some thirty before that. They used to 

 be quite common some seventy years ago, in the forest of 

 Rockingham." ' 



'■'■December 12th, 1895. 



"With regard to peregrines about Salisbury cathedral, 

 I can only say that seven is a very unusual number to 

 be seen together, but there is no impossibility about it. 



" I am glad to hear of the proposed arrangement on 

 the spire in favour of our friends, the peregrines."^ 



"March 16//7, 1895. 

 " I knew that a pair of peregrines occasionally bred upon 

 the spire ot Salisbury cathedral, but I had no idea that they 



1 To W. H. St. Quintin, Esq. 



^ To the same. 



' To the Rev. W. Willimott. 



