120 Letters, Announcenietits, S§c. 



looking towards the other side of the cliff, about sixty yards 

 off, where the landslip is^ Henry said, " It is a Falcon ; look ! 

 it's sitting straight upright." The letter then goes on to 

 say that he had a good look at it with his field-glass : " The 

 bird was sitting on a stone looking at us ; it seemed quite 

 white, except the tail. Had I gone to the other side of the 

 landslip, I could have approached within ten yards of it. But 

 I left, and went about two miles to the keeper's house, and 

 told him I would give him a pound if he would let me shoot 

 it, or, if he would shoot it, I would give him the same amount. 

 I put down four traps baited with young rabbits. Two days 

 after, on the 13th June, it was seen at Seaton to strike a 

 tame Pigeon close to a man ; it dropped the Pigeon, which 

 was dead. Several persons saw it during the week. It was 

 last seen at Lyme Regis, Dorset." 



C. A. W. 

 Brighton, Oct. 5. 



Clitlieroe, September 1882. 



Sirs, — I have been for some years working at the Birds of 

 Lancashire, and am anxious to make the list as complete as 

 possible. The value of local lists of birds is generally recog- 

 nized; and I need not, therefore, apologize for attempting to 

 bring together in a collected form, up to the present date, the 

 ornithological knowledge of my native county. 



Lancashire ornithologists, though numerous and intelli- 

 gent, have, unfortunately, seldom published their observa- 

 tions ; and the quantity of material ready to hand is much 

 smaller than is possessed by some other counties. Thus, to 

 make the work complete, it is the more necessary to have 

 full information from those acquainted with every district. 



If any of your correspondents are able to assist me, I shall 

 be pleased to furnish them, on application, with the parti- 

 culars on which I desire information. 



Yours &c., 



F. S. Mitchell. 



Sirs, — Tlie paper on a collection of birds made on the 

 river Yang-tze-kiang by the Rev. H. H. Slater, in the July 



