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coming to feed the female, and of her sometimes going to meet him, 

 turning on her back and catching the prey thus brought her, which 

 was, however, occasionally dropped on the nest. He also told me 

 of the young pecking one of their fellows to death when bloody ; of 

 the habits of the old birds when the nest is approached, their cries, 

 and the like. He described the difference in the situation of the nest 

 of the three species of Harrier. Montagu's Harrier is a migratory 

 bird, the other two not. He had snared many hundreds in his day. 

 As to the bird and eggs mentioned above, when I got up to Bait's- 

 bight, Mrs. Harvey showed me the bird, a beautiful specimen, and I 

 took the three eggs and blew them very neatly and carefully in my 

 rooms — two holes. In a few days Mr. Harvey came and demanded 

 six shillings each ! upon which, with the greatest internal reluctance, 

 I gave them up. Mr. Harvey had many specimens from Mr. Seaman, 

 of Ipswich, some of which, if I remember right, were spotted. I gave 

 Mr. Osborne (an honest feUow, I believe, and Mr. Doubleday's cor- 

 respondent) eighteen pence each for these eggs. He privately as- 

 sured me afterwards that Mr. Harvey upbraided him greatly in 

 consequence. 



§ 462. O^e.— England (?). From Mr. Argent's Collection, 

 1846. 

 Mr. Argent has great dealings with the Cambridgeshire fen-men. 



§ 463. Owe.— From Mr. Green's Collection, 1852. 

 A spotted specimen. 



[§ 464. One.~¥eltwe[\, Norfolk. From Mr. R. Reynolds, 

 prior to 1855.] 



[§ 465. Two.— Yeilkemwaard, North Brabant, 1843. From Mr. 

 Newcome's Collection.] 



[§ 466. Two. — Valkenswaard, North Brabant, 1850. Through 

 Mr. Newcome.] 



[§ 467. 77^re^.— Feltwell Fen, Norfolk, 9 June, 1854. "Bird 

 shot." From Mr. Whitmore Baker. 



On the IGth June, 1854, my brother Ethvard went over to Feltwell Fen, 



