NOTES. 307 



concludes his valuable note with the remark, " I cannot find 

 any record of a Snow-Bunting in Dorset since 1846 (Mansel- 

 Pleydeh 1 )." A reference, however, to page 41 of the late Mr. 

 L. C. Mansel-Pleydell's " Birds of Dorsetshire," which was 

 published in 1888, though, unfortunately, not dated, shows 

 that the only years actually specified by him for the occurrence 

 of the Snow-Bunting in Dorset are 1844, 1868, and 1869, 

 the two last being long subsequent to " 1846," which, indeed, 

 he does not mention at all. Captain Portman, together with 

 others who study the birds of this county, will doubtless be 

 interested to learn that Mr. Mansel-Pleydell himself chronicled 

 the fact that a Snow-Bunting was shot at Kimmeridge, which 

 is in south-east Dorset, on November 29th, 1895 (cf. Proc. 

 Dors. N. H. and A. F. Club, xvii., 199 (1896)). 



Eustace R. Bankes. 

 In connection with this subject I may note that on December 

 2nd, 1891, I shot a solitary specimen— a male in autumn 

 plumage — of the Snow- Bunting on the shores of Poole 

 Harbour. 



H. W. Mapleton. 



LITTLE OWL IN STAFFORDSHIRE. 



In the article on the spread of the Little Owl (Athene 

 noctua) (Vol. I., p. 335) only one record of the species in 

 Staffordshire is given, and I am not aware of any subsequent 

 occurrence ; it may therefore be of interest to record an adult 

 specimen (sex unknown) which was shot at Lichfield on 

 November 27th, 1909, and preserved by Messrs. Bettridge 

 and Son, of Birmingham, at whose shop I examined it. 



A. J. Leigh. 

 [There are also one or two records from Burton-on-Trent- 

 on the borders of Staffordshire and Derbyshire ; one was shot 

 there on March 13th, 1909.— F.C.R.J.] 



MONTAGU'S HARRIER IN KENT. 



A Montagu's Harrier (Circus cineraceus) was shot on 

 November 18th, 1909, near Folkestone. Colonel Montagu 

 said he had never known of a Montagu's Harrier in England 

 later than October. P. Vernon Dodd. 



[A specimen is recorded as having been shot at Staplehurst 

 on November 10th, 1892. Cf. " Birds of Kent," p. 266.— Eds.] 



GREENLAND FALCON IN CO. ANTRIM. 



On December 16th, 1909, a male Greenland Falcon (Falco 

 candicans) was obtained near Larne, co. Antrim, and brought 



