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March yd. Shag, $ (Phalacrocorax graculus), Northamptonshire 

 specimen, died. This bird was picked up near Higham Ferrers 

 after heavy gales in the first days of September 1892, and sent to 

 me alive by one Shelton. 



March tfh. Lammergeier (Gypaetus barbatus) lay on the grass 

 basking in front of the house. This is one of two young birds of last 

 year, procured through G. Frank from Western Switzerland. These 

 birds have been at complete liberty since I received them last summer 

 before they could fly, till Cosgrave told me that one of them seemed 

 to be suffering from the cold of early January, and was taken into 

 shelter, where he has completely recovered. The bird, still at liberty, 

 never goes to any considerable distance, and very seldom mounts to 

 more than seventy or eighty feet from the ground. He generally 

 roosts about the courtyard walls, seems to be more sensitive of wet 

 than cold, and remains quite tame. 



March \$th. Small gallinules (Gallinula angulata], Sundevall 

 (fide P. L. Sclater and R. B. Sharpe). I sent these two birds to 

 London for inspection by Sclater, who tells me that he and Sharpe 

 make them out as specimens of the above-named South African 

 species. This species, in immature plumage, is figured in Ibis, 1859, 

 under the name of Gallinula pumila, Sclater. 



March \6th. Night heron (Nycticorax griseus), in aviary, laid 

 first egg of season. 



March \*]th. Mexican jays (Cyanocorax luxuosus). Two received 

 from Jamrach. The first of the species ever seen alive by me. Active 

 and very pretty birds, with a curious squeal, that reminds me greatly^ 

 of the cry of the common buzzard. 



March 2oth. Cinereous vulture ( Vultur monachus), old Spanish 

 bird, laid an egg. This bird was taken from a nest in a high pine 

 tree in the forest near San Ildefonso, Old Castille, in June, 1865 

 (Ibis, 1866, pp. 388, 389). 



March 2-jfk. White-shouldered eagle d (Aquila adalberti) died. 

 I believe that this bird was the only male of three brought home by 

 me from a nest in the Goto del Rey in 1869 ; but I have had several 

 at various times since, and having been so much away from home, 



