280 BRITISH BIRDS. 



but, being only winged, recovered, and lived for many years 

 in the Devonshire Park. Eastbourne. The next day, taking 

 advantage of a fog, Hewett shot the female from her nest. 

 This closes the history of the Heathfield Park Ravens, 

 doubtless descendants of those that feasted on the bodies 

 of Cade and his followers who perished near the same spot — 

 "Leaving thy trunk for crows to feed upon." — Henry VI., Act IV. 



H. W. Feilden. 



LITTLE OWL IN NORTH-WEST OXFORDSHIRE. 



A PAIR of Little Owls established themselves at Kingham, 

 Chipping Norton, last spring, and continued with us all the 

 summer, attracting much attention by their loud cries, uttered 

 repeatedly while hunting after sunset and during the early 

 part of the night. I may mention that I have had great 

 difficulty in finding a good description of this cry in English 

 ornithological works ; but in Fatio's " Oiseaux de la Suisse " 

 I have at last found an excellent one. Professor Fatio is 

 gifted with a very keen ear for the utterances of birds, and has 

 had the experience of a long life among them. He writes 

 (Vol. I., p. 194) : " Son cri, souvent repete, et qui passe 

 volon tiers pour un mauvais presage, pent etre traduit de 

 di verses manieres, selon les circonstances et les appreciations ; 

 c'est souvent : kuitt ou kuwitt, parfois kuiick ou kouuk, ou 

 keuw-keuw ou encore poupou-poupou.^^ The second of these 

 descriptions agrees almost exactly with the way in which I 

 attempted to syllable the cry myself last summer. 



No doubt the birds bred here, but we thought it advisable to 

 refrain from making an elaborate search. As we are on the 

 borders of Gloucestershire, I think their appearance here 

 marks the farthest point to the w^est that the birds have as 

 yet reached. W. Warde Fowler. 



[In western counties the Little Owl has previously been 

 reported from Goring and Henley, in Oxfordshire {B. B., 

 Vol. I., p. 338), Fairford, Willey, and Shrewsburv, in Shropshire 

 (Vol. I., pp. 388 and 339), Avebury, in Wiltshire (Vol. II., 

 p. 100\ and Sutton Coldfield, in Warwickshire (Vol. II., p. 

 240).— H.F.W.] 



SCAUP-DUCKS IN NOTTINGHAMSHIRE IN THE 

 SPRING AND SUMMER OF 1908. 



On March 21st, when fishing in the large lake in Thoresby 

 Park (this piece of water is over ninety -acres, and is situated 

 in the middle of a 2000 acre deer park) I saw one male and 

 three female Scaups. I had my binoculars, and got pretty 

 near to them in the boat. On May 2nd Mr. H. E. Forrest and I 



