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(E. F. L.) Rev. E. F. Linton, Edmondsham Rector}-, 



Salisbury. 



(J. M. J. F.) Rev. J. M. J. Fletcher, The Vicarage, Wimborne 

 Minster. 



Several other contributors send notes, and the Rev. James 

 Cross contributes the continuation of the list giving particulars 

 of the cultivation of barley and wheat published last year 

 (" Proc.," XXVIII., 270-5). 



The accession to our small list of observers of such an 

 excellent botanist and general observer as the Rev. E. F. Linton 

 is a subject for congratulation, especially as there was no one 

 representing his part of Dorset, in the neighbourhood of 

 Cranborne. The Rev. J. M. J. Fletcher has also sent in a very 

 full Botanical list. I hope that all observers will read carefully 

 Mr. Linton's note on the Spotted Orchis. 



NOTES ON RARE AND OTHER BIRDS IN 1907. 



No new bird to the county of Dorset is recorded, the most 

 interesting being the confirmation of the occurrence of BUFFON'S 

 SKUA, which had hitherto rested on one specimen seen by Mr. 

 G. R. Peck in the summer of 1905 near the breakwater on 

 S. Haven Point, Studland Bay (" Proc.," XXVII., 261). 



PIED FLYCATCHER (Afuscicapa atricaptlla, L.) On April 25, 

 1907, I had the pleasure of watching for some time at very close 

 quarters a beautiful male specimen at Norden, Corfe Castle. In 

 the course of my life I have seen four other individuals of this 

 species at Corfe Castle, but it has been rarely observed in Dorset, 

 and, so far as I know, only when on its spring migration north- 

 wards. (E. R. B.) 



GOLDEN ORIOLE (Oriolus galbula, L.). An immature specimen 

 was seen at Corfe Castle by Mr. J. Neale and Miss Neale, of 

 Bournemouth, on September 28, 1906. (E. R. B.) 



DIPPER (Cinclus aquaticus, Bechs.). Colonel F. W. Main- 

 waring describes a nest, in which young were hatched in June, 

 placed in the wall of a long tunnel through which the river runs 



