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chiefly during the summer months. Specimens have 

 been killed atTeignmouth, Aveton Gifford, Brixham, 

 Plymouth, Kingsbridge (twice), and in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Ohudleigh, birds procured at these two 

 last localities being preserved in the Exeter Museum. 

 The Rev. Murray A, Matliew records another, shot 

 near Bideford in October 1875, (ZooL 1875 p. 4720), 



Famih) Corvid.e. 

 CHOUGH. — P///vAoroyv/.r 'irarulv^ (Linn). 



A RARE resident. A few Choughs still breed on the 

 coasts of North and South Devon, but it is necessary 

 in the interests of the birds to abstain from naming 

 precise localities. It may suffice to say that Mr. 

 Rawson is intimately acquainted with their haunts, 

 and that the birds have been seen by Mr. Aplin, 

 Mr. Mitchell and other Ornithologists. Mr. 

 Gatcombe unfortunately examined many Choughs 

 killed in S.W. Devon and Cornwall, and suggested 

 that in autumn they are partially migrant. Mr. Toll 

 occasionally observes a Chough on the banks of the 

 River Dart. Of stuffed specimens, a specimen 

 obtained near Torquay, exists in the local museum, 

 two others, preserved in the Exeter Museum, formerly 

 belonged to a flock of Choughs kept by the late Mr. 

 R. Sanders, at Exeter, and two specimens obtained 

 in North Devon are in my collection. The Chough 

 was formerly very numerous at Lundy Island, but 

 Mr. Howard Saunders informed the Editor that its 

 numbers had been reduced very low, if not fatally 



