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said for the two preceding species. The many local races or species sold 

 as Alexandrines I cannot discuss here, but some reference thereto will 

 be found in Mr. Dewar's interesting notes 011 " Aviary Birds I have met in 

 their native state" in current volume/ 



I have purposely made but little mention of food and treatment as I 

 hope Mrs. Anningson will write us an article on same for a near issue. 



The aviary containing a fine series of the Peach-faced Lovebird and 

 the Finch aviary, with its varied and interesting occupants, I must leave to 

 our next issue. 



I shall hope in a future issue to figure some of the species described 



in these notes. 



( To be con ti?i ued). 



Ornithological Botes During a fllMDeummer 

 IboliDap in the pennines. 



By H. Goodchiu), M.B.O.U. 

 (Continued from page 252 J. 



Turning away from the fine mountain valley, I went over the open 

 rounded slopes of Cross Fell towards the top. I was now at two thousand 

 feet altitude, and on a tract where one usually sees few birds. I had, on 

 occasion, seen flocks of Starlings at even a greater height than this, feeding 

 amongst sheep, and had seen an occasional Wheatear, but on this occasion 

 I saw nothing to record until I had passed over the plateau and reached the 

 spring again beyond it. Here for the second time I saw a large party of 

 Swifts and, along with them, House Mai tins. I watched these birds a long 

 time, as some of them came close enough for me to hear the rush of their 

 wings, as they circled round me and whirled themselves through the air. 

 What I took to be the whistle of a Wading bird of some kind puzzled me 

 for a long time, but I could not see either a bird or a human being to 

 attribute it to, and so I gave it up for a bad job. Two Ravens went over as 

 I retraced my steps, but did not come near me, as they sometimes do. 



As I had quitted the deep valley before I had intended to, and had not 

 seen either of the two species of birds I felt most confident of seeing, I 

 returned to it and started at the top, amongst thesodden " peat hags " which 

 form the common source, both for the stream I was to follow (Crovvduudle 

 Beck) and the River Tees. I had gone some distance down before I saw that 

 angler's friend, the Dipper, perched on a water-worn and moss-grown 

 boulder in mid-stream, but he kept on his stone and bobbed up and down 

 long enough for me to make a pencil sketch of him in my note book, for 

 which I was grateful to him, as he was the first I had seen. I had just com- 

 pleted my sketch and the entry in my note book, when what I took to be a 

 Pipit flew over and settled on a stone above me. I had looked at so many 



