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Shoveller. A brilliant bird in full plumage, he came one year 

 ir February or March and stayed on my ponds. He was not 

 always there, but he was often there, and he adopted all the 

 habits of my tame shovellers. If he were sitting" on the bank 

 and I walked past he would fly five or six yards into the water 

 and sit quite unconcerned. If he were in the water he did not 

 offer to get on the wing at all 



( )ne day after lunch 1 had a walk round tlie pond and 

 saw he was not there. I went for a bicycle ride, and coming 

 back, about a mile from home, I saw on a pond in a held, not on 

 my property, a shoveller drake in full plumage. I felt morally 

 certain it was the same drake which had come to my ponds. 

 The pool was about one-hundred yards from the road. I got in 

 tne field and walked straight towards him. He rose off the 

 water, went high in the air, and after circling about I saw him 

 go straight for my woods. I stepped the distance at wdiich 

 he had risen, and, allowing for a few yards of water I could not 

 step, the distance was something over ninety yards. 



I l:icycled straight home, and went straight to the fartlier 

 pc nd which he usually frequented, and there he was on the water, 

 perfectly unconcerned and tame. That is a very striking instance 

 of how quickly birds find out when a place is a sanctuary. 



[We have given the main features fairly fully of this inter- 

 esting description of the Fallodon Waterfowl Sanctuary, which 

 was not written for Pearson's Magazine, but was delivered as a 

 lecture by Lord Grey to the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, and 

 was reproduced by permission from the recently issued proceed- 

 ings of the Club. We tender thanks and apologies to the 

 Berwickshire Naturalists' Club for the above partial reprint of 

 Lord Grey's most interesting lecture. The article is illustrated 

 by L. R. Brightwell. F.Z.S., two of whose drawings are quaint 

 and full of quiet humour In one is a wire fence, on the left of 

 which are three happy contented ducklings, and beneath them 

 one reads " Fox-proof " — on the right is a discontented and 

 unhappy-looking fox; beneath him is the trite title " sour- 

 ckicklings. ' 



Another depicts a realistic sketch of the young wood- 

 ducks dropping to the ground from the nest-hole; just above 

 level of the hole is a peeping, quizzical squirrel. — Editor, Bikij 



NOTE.S.] 



