9804 Birds. 



to the intruder. In this district, where nearly all the houses and 

 buildings are covered with tiles, sparrows frequently contrive to get 

 under the tiles, by the small space left b}' chipping off the corner of 

 the tile to make it fit in with the succeeding tile. I lately observed 

 on the roof of a barn the carcasses of five sparrows hanging by the 

 neck from these small holes': the birds had evidently inserted their 

 heads underneath the tiles in their endeavours to force a passage, and 

 in drawing them back again had been securely trapped in the angle 

 between the two tiles, and had thus perished miserably. 



Cormorant. — These birds do not altogether confine themselves to a 

 marine diet, but where fresh-water fish abound will go far inland to 

 procure them. They are commonly seen on some of the Welsh lakes : 

 Lake Cwellyn, famous for its trout, is a favourite haunt of the cormorant, 

 where, when not employed in fishing, they take their station on the 

 large boulders near the margin of the llyn ; some of these stones are 

 quite white with the droppings of these harpies. During a recent 

 visit to this lovely lake 1 heard, late in the evening, the cry of the cor- 

 morants echoing ihrougli the mountains, and early the next morning, 

 when rowing across the llyn, put one up from the chaos of boulders 

 near the foot of the Mynydd Mawr : it turned out one of the counnon 

 species. 



Gray Wagtail. — This bird is never seen in Lincolnshire during the 

 breeding-season, although it is common enough during the winter 

 months. They appear to resort, during the summer more especially, 

 to the mountainous districts of lOngland, and I observed them to be 

 common everywhere through North Wales, enlivening the banks of the 

 mountain-streams and the shores of the lonely Uyns, probably retiring 

 to the lowlands on the approach of winter. 



John Cokdeaux. 



Great Cotes, Ulceby, Lincolnshire, 

 October 2, 1865. 



Ornilholoyical Notes from Norfolk, during Augu.<it and September. 

 By Henry Stevenson, Esq. 



(Continued from page 9577.) 



A FINE pair of Montagu's harrier, with a nestling still retaining much 

 down amongst its young leathers, were sent to a bird-preserver in this 

 city, about the middle of July, having been killed on the river near 

 Brandon, where they had evidently bred this summer. 



