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localities, on Dartmoor, near Plymouth, at Slapton 

 Ley, in Woodley Woods and elsewhere. Writing 

 under date of June 2nd, 1866, the late Mr. Rodd 

 remarks : " Mr. Yingoe received from North Devon 

 yesterday a fine specimen of the female Honey 

 Buzzard. There was a chain of eggs in the ovary, 

 but whether they would have been laid this year is 

 doubtful " (Zool. 1866. p. 308). On dissectingafemale 

 Honey Buzzard, killed near Plymouth, in October 

 1881,Mr.Gatcombe found that "the stomach, strange 

 to say, contained nothing but a q uantity of white 

 feathers, (apparently its own) in a similar state to 

 those which are often found compressed in the 

 stomach of a Grebe " (Zool. 1882. p. 65). 



PEREGRINE FALCON.— Faico peregrinus, Tuustall. 



A EESIDENT species, included by Polwhele in his 

 account of the Birds of Devon, as the " Gyrfalcon," 

 a curious misnomer. In 1869, Baron A. von Hiigel 

 recorded the Peregrine as nesting at Watcombe, 

 near Dartmouth, and at Start Point (Zool. 1869. p. 

 1816). Mr. Rawson finds it breeding at Baggy 

 Point, and it nests on Lundy Island, or has only 

 ceased to do so very recently. The Rev. Prebendary 

 Bassett has seen the Falcon on Exmoor, and 

 believes that formerly it bred there. Mr. Gatcombe 

 examined a good many Peregrines killed near 

 Plymouth, and gives an interesting account of a 

 young bird: " Some years ago a shipwright's lad 

 took three young ones from a nest at Wembury, one 



