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Peregrine at ClyfFe Pypard. in November. I9O6, a fine female 

 PeveRrine was shot by T. M. Gale, of Clyffe Pyyard, in mistake for a 

 pigeon. The bird is preserved at the Goddard Arras, but has un- 

 fortunately been spoilt by bad stuffing.— Ed. H. Goddahd. 



WOOdChat at AldbOUrne. I understand the Wryneck is very 

 scarce in North Wilts, but I both heard and saw this bird on April 18th, 

 1907, in a small orchard on the road between Brinkworth and Malmes- 

 bury. just this side of the four mile stone from Malmesbury. 



The Hobbys came to Braydon last year, but owing to constant dis- 

 turbance failed to nest. I have not heard of their arrival this season. 



On January 26th, 1907, when snipe shooting I rose and killed a Dunlin 

 out of the river Ray where it passes under the G.W.R. bj' the sewage 

 works. I took it at first for a Jack Snipe, of which there were several 

 about, and although I recognised it as I pulled, it was too late to save 

 its life. It was a curious stray to find so far inland, though common 

 enough on our coasts. 



On June 13th, 1906, when bicycling from Lyddington to Aldbourne 

 I saw, half-way between the two places, just where the downs begin to 

 cease, but still on them, by a farm house and a small copse, that very 

 rare bird the Woodchat (Lanii(s Rtifus). It was not at all shy, and I 

 got off and watched it for a quarter of an hour, and there was no doubt 

 of the species. — D. Pebcy Harrison. 



Redshank nesting in Wilts. Mr. A. Wrightson, of North 



Charford Manor, showed me a Redshank's nest in one of the water- 

 meadows in the parish of Downton, on April 27th, 1907. He tells me 

 that he has not known the bird to breed in the neighbourhood before. 

 There are altogether apparently three pairs of the species in the district 

 this season. I think this is an interesting extension. There are probably 

 only a very few — if any — other localities in the county in which it is 

 known to nest.— F. G. Penbosb. 



