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very fine specimen of long-eared bat (Plecotus auritus), and our 

 waiter tells of a man at Altenahr who has two young " Uhus " (Bubo 

 maximusT) alive. 



June \*]th. Found that the "Uhus" mentioned above had been 

 sold and sent to Bonn. Young swallows flying. 



Letter from Leo, with some details about his Egyptian birds ; 

 the best things seem to be sEgialitis asiatica in breeding plumage, 

 and a falcon doubtful but supposed to be F. barbarus. 



June i8M. Heard from G. Lascelles that the two young 

 falcons from the Maddalena, which had reached him in wretched 

 condition, were improving. Wrote to Castang, telling him to send 

 down a lanner, hobby, and hawk, which he thinks is Saker, to Lilford. 



June \^th. Saw kingfisher (Alcedo ispida), new to Neuenahr 

 list ; also a woodpecker in Curgarten, which I am almost certain was 

 Gecinus canus. 



June 2oth. Watched tree creepers (Certhia familiaris) feeding 

 their young in nest at head of pollard willow. Saw some fifty little 

 tits (Acredula caudatd) new to my Neuenahr list. This was 

 apparently a collection of several families out for a lark together. 



June 22nd. Saw common sandpiper (Totanus hypoleucus\ new 

 to my Neuenahr list. 



June 2yd. Saw grey wagtail (Motacilla sulphurea), new to 

 Neuenahr list. Heard golden oriole, quail, and wood lark. Letter 

 from G. Hunt announcing the finding of hobby's nest with three 

 eggs in Geddington Chase, and the fact that the gamekeeper who 

 found this one destroyed eggs and shot the old birds from another 

 nest last year in Boughton Wood. 



June 2Afth. Heard from Bartlett that he had a hobby for me 

 in good plumage, and from Paul Mollen that the hawks from 

 Castang viz., lanner (Falco feldeggi), hobby (F. subbuteo\ and 

 supposed saker (which is not what it is supposed to be) had 

 arrived at Lilford, "and that one of the African buzzards (Buteo 

 desertorum) was dead. 



