320 BRITISH BIRDS. [vol. ix. 



A Rough-legged Buzzard (Buteo I. lagopus) was shot in 

 the same locality on November 12th, 1915. I have examined 

 these specimens, Avhich were exhibited, both under A\Tong 

 names, in aid of the Red Cross Society, in an inn not far from 

 the place of their capture. The keeper informed me that a 

 pair of Buzzards (presumably B. lagopus) were haunting the 

 district about the end of last March, and on April 11th 1 saw 

 a Rough-legged Buzzard mobbed by Lapwings on Scotton 

 Common, a few miles to the south-west of Manton Warren, 

 (See also above, p. 252.) F. L. Blathwayt. 



POCHARD BREEDING ON THE WELSH BORDER. 

 In view of the fact that no nest of the Pochard {Nj/roca 

 f. ferina) has been recorded in North Wales, the following is 

 of interest. Mr. Norman Gilroy tells me that early in June 

 1915 he found two nests on Whixall Moss, the marshy tract 

 of country shown in the photograph facing page 272 of my 

 Vertebrate Fauna of North Wales. The spot is almost exactly 

 on the borders of Flintshire and Shropshire. When first seen 

 the ducks were on a small pool close to Bettisfield station, 

 but when disturbed flew southwards across the canal. The 

 moss on the south side is a soft morass, with pools here and 

 there, the water in which is practically continuous with that 

 of the canal. It was on one of these water holes that a few 

 days later Mr. Gilroy found two Pochards' nests, one con- 

 taining nine and the other eleven eggs. It has nested two or 

 three times in Shropshire, but this is the first actual proof 

 that it does so in North Wales. H. E. Forrest. 



QUAILS IN CO. DUBLIN. 



With reference to Mr. CanoU's note (antea, p. 302) my 

 observations of the Quail at Balbriggan, co. Dublin, dmingthe 

 last fourteen years are confined to three years — Ma}^ 2(»th, 1 905, 

 June 2Sth, 1907, and June 20th, 1913. Asl have been absent 

 usually for the months of July and August, it may perhaps 

 have occurred more frequently. Charles W. BtxsoN. 



Rough-legged Buzzard in Fife. — Miss E. V. Baxter and 

 Miss L. J. Rintoul record (Scot. Nat. 1916. p. OS) that an 

 injured Buteo I. lagopus was fomid under telephone wires 

 about October 22nd, 1915, between Largo and Colinsburgh. 

 The bird recovered and was eventually released. 



HoNEY-BuzzARD IN BERWICKSHIRE. — Mr. T. G. Laidlaw 

 states {Scot. Nat. 1916, p. 69) that an example of Perni.'i 

 ajnvorus was shot in the district of Duns about the middle 

 of July, 1915. 



