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November 3rd, 1910. Tha specimen was much damaged, a 

 bullet or stone having passed right through its body ; but it 

 has been preserved, and is now in the possession of the Golf 

 Club at Ganton. The crop and gullet of the bird contained 

 a number of larvce of the crane-fly. Wm. J. Clarke. 



ROUGH-LEGGED BUZZARD IN SUSSEX. 



Two fine examples of the Rough-legged Buzzard {Buteo 

 lagopus) \A ere shot in Sussex last autumn. A male on October 

 31st, 1910, at Netherfield — which has been presented to the 

 Hastings Museum — and a female on November 1st, 1910, 

 between Netherfield and Battle. 



I understand that both birds had been seen in the district 

 for two or three weeks before they were obtained. 



H. W. Ford-Lindsay. . 



WHITE-TAILED EAGLE IN SHROPSHIRE. 

 Mr. G. H. Paddock, informs me that on April 2nd, 

 1911, he and his son observed an Eagle near Welhngton, 

 Salop. Their attention was first attracted by the behaviour 

 of a lot of Peewits and Starlings, which were feeding in a field 

 and suddenly scattered in all directions. Looking up, they 

 saw a huge bird coming from the direction of the Wrekin. 

 At first they took it for a Buzzard, but as it approached and 

 flew right over them, they saw that it was far too large and 

 much darker in colour. Mr. Paddock, who is a good ornith- 

 ologist, identified it without a doubt as Halia'etus albicilla, 

 a species that has been recorded over a dozen times in 

 Shropshire. H. E. Forrest 



PEREGRINE FALCON IN WILTSHIRE. 



An adult female Peregrine Falcon {Falco. peregrinus) was 

 trapped by a keeper near Marlborough, on March 29th, 1911. 

 An immature Peregrine was shot at Marlborough in Sep- 

 tember, 1908. R. 0. Mathews. 



BREEDING OF SHOVELER, TUFTED DUCK, AND 



GARGANEY IN SOMERSET. 



In British Birds, Vol. II., pp. 83 and 415, are short notes on 

 the breeding of the Tufted Duck {Fuligula cristata) and 

 Shoveler [Spatula dypeata) in Somerset, the former on Blagdon 

 Reservoir in 1906, the latter on the Somerset moors. I know 

 of no record of the breeding of the Tufted Duck in the county 

 jprior to that date. The Shoveler has been known to breed on 



