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immense amount of damage especially among the clierry- 

 oreliards in the summer. He concludes that steps should 

 be taken in certain districts at any rate to reduce their 

 numbers. Fruit-growers in other parts of the world, even 

 in South Africa, where the Starling has been introduced and 

 has spread very quickly, have had the same experience. 



List of other Ornithological Publications received. 



OiiKRiiiR, G, K. Some apparently uudescribed Birtis from the Col- 

 lection of the Uoosevelt South American Expedition. Bull. Am. 

 Mus. N. H. XXXV. art. 17, 1916. 

 GuRNEY, J. H. Ornithological Report for Norfolk (1915). Zoologist, 



1916. 

 Shufeldt, R. W. Some Cardinal and Owl Notes. (" Guide to Nature," 



ix. Sound Beacli, Conn., 1916.) 

 White, S. A. In the Far North- West. (Adelaide, 1916.) 

 The Auk. (Vol. xxxiii. Nos. 1-3. Cambridge, Mass., 1916.) 

 Avicultural Magazine. (Third Series, Vol. vii. Nos. 9-11. Loudon, 



1916.) 

 Bird Notes. (New Series, Vol. vii. Nos. 7-9. Ashbourne, 1916.) 

 British Birds. (Vol. x. Nos. 2-4. London, 1916.) 

 Canada, Geol. Survey. Summary Report for 1915. (Ottawa, 1916.) 

 The Condor. (Vol. xviii. Nos. 3, 4. Hollywood, Cal., 1916.) 

 The Irish Naturalist. (Vol. xxv. Nos. 6-9, Dublin, 1916.) 

 Revue Frangaise d'Ornithologie. (Nos. 88, 89. Orleans, 1916.) 

 The Scottish Naturalist. (Nos. 55-57. Edinburgh, 1916.) 

 South Australian Ornithologist. (Vol. ii. pt. 7. Adelaide, 1916.) 



XXXIV. — Letters, Extracts, and Notes. 



Food of the Peregrine. 



Sir, — Field-naturalists must have read with amazement 

 Capt. Collingwood Ingram's statement (' Ibis,' p. 523) that 

 Rooks are probably quite immune from the attacks of the 

 Peregrine in a wild state. I live within easy reach of 

 fifteen eyries, and find when visiting the "plucking places" 

 that Rooks largely compose the bill-of-fare. 



