NOTES. 375 



at Tilford, a party of twelve on January 23rd near 

 Waverley Abbey, a pair on February 6th, near Godstone ; 

 none seen in south-east Surrey since. On March 5th 

 and 6th the majority had apparently left the fir- wood 

 country and the east of Farnham, as no flocks were 

 observed and only two pairs and one or two solitary 

 individuals {Howard Bentham). 



Sussex. — A few on July 17th, 1909, in some of the Down 

 Plantations near Brighton (J. Walpole-Bond). A male 

 and two females on February 23rd at Cuckfield (Col. 

 Stephenson R. Clarke). Still near Horsham, five seen 

 on March 1st, and six on March 2nd (J. G. Millais). 



Yorkshire. — A party about the middle of November and 

 ten on December 15th, 1909, near York (S. H. Smith, 

 Nat., 1910, p. 132). 



Ireland. — Two on March 1st at Morristown Biller, New- 

 bridge, co. Kildare (Major B. R. Horsbrugh). 



TWO-BARRED CROSSBILL IN SCOTLAND. 



In view of Mr. William Evans' notes on this species on p. 306 

 (supra), I write to inform you that a pair of L. bifasciata 

 were shot at Dardarroch, Dunscore, Dumfriesshire, on 

 March 1st, 1890. Full details, with plate, will appear shortly 

 in my " Birds of Dumfriesshire." 



A record of " a large flock " of L. leucoptera near Banff, 

 about 1809 (Zool., 1859, p. 6631), is not mentioned by Mr. 

 Evans, although referred to by Saxby (Birds of Shetland, 1874, 

 p. 115). 



Hugh S. Gladstone. 



LITTLE OWL IN WILTSHIRE. 



A male and female of the Little Owl (Athene noctua) were 

 shot on the Hampworth Estate, in the south-east corner 

 of Wiltshire, on January 8th, 1910. 



F. Reynolds. 



LESSER KESTREL IN YORKSHIRE. 



On October 14th, 1909, I shot, on the Holderness coast, in 

 Yorkshire, a Lesser Kestrel (Falco cenchris, Naum.). This 

 bird, which was an immature male, was migrating south, 

 and was, when on the wing, noticeably smaller than the 

 Common Kestrel. The gizzard was full of grasshoppers, 



