314 BRITISH HIKDS. [vol. xiii. 



BREEDING OF DIPPER IN WILTSHIRE. 



A NEST of the Dipper {Cinchis c. britannicus) , containing four 

 slightly incubated eggs, was found by me on April 5th, 1920, 

 in the Nadder Valley, near Salisbury. The birds commenced 

 to build the nest on March 20th. As far as can be ascertained, 

 these birds have been established at this spot for the past ten 

 years. In 1914 I found a pair on April nth feeding a brood 

 of young, and another brood in June of that year. On 

 reference to the Birds of Wiltshire (Smith), I find no mention 

 of the species having nested in the county. Are there any 

 records for Wiltshire ? D. W. Musselwhite. 



[The Dipper has been recorded as breeding in the north-west 

 of Wiltshire (see Brit. B., Vol. VII., p. 230), but not so far as 

 we know anywhere in the neighbourhood of Salisbury. — Eds.] 



HOBBY, NOT RED-FOOTED FALCON IN NORFOLK. 



As it is always a good thing to put mistakes right, an apology 

 will hardly be needed for correcting my error in recording a 

 Red-footed Falcon as seen by Mr. Meade-Waldo at Sutton on 

 May 2ist, 1912 {Zoologist, XVII. (1913), p. 171) ; the bird 

 was merely a Hobby, a species certainly more associated with 

 woodlands than with the Broad district. J. H. Gurney. 



HEN-HARRIER IN BERKSHIRE. 



On November 25th or 26th, 1919, a Hen-Harrier {Circus 

 cyaneus) was shot by one of the keepers of Mr. A. Morris of 

 Aston Tirrold, Berks., on the Downs near Aston Tirrold. It 

 had killed a Partridge and was apparently a hen bird, but 

 the taxidermist was unable to confirm the sex by dissection. 

 In all probability it was one of a pair, for another Harrier, 

 evidently a male, in the characteristic grey plumage, has been 

 seen several times during the winter on the downs and was 

 noticed by Mr. Morris towards the end of March 1920. There 

 are five previous records, mostly indefinite, of this species 

 being killed in Berkshire, as well as about the same number 

 reported as seen. F. C. R. Jourdain. 



ROUGH-LEGGED BUZZARD IN DEVON. 



On March 29th, 1920, at Budleigh Salterton, I had a clear 

 view of a Rough -legged Buzzard {Buteo I. lagopus), which, I 

 think, is a very rare visitor to the south-western corner of 

 England. 



I first noticed the bird when it was at a considerable distance 

 and took it for a Common Buzzard, but very soon observed 



