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to the earth, and I being no better than my fellow men, in my ad- 

 miration of the skill of the victor, overlooked for a time the cruelty of 

 the deed. Peregrines sometimes devour their prey upon the spot 

 where it falls, but I think it is more usual to carry it away to some 

 favourite mound or rock, so situated that no enemy can approach 

 during the meal without being seen in time to prevent a surprise. 

 Near one of these rocks, which had apparently been used as a feeding- 

 place for many weeks, 1 discovered the remains of no less than ten 

 species of birds, viz. golden plovers, ringed plovers, lapwings, curlews, 

 puffins, wild ducks, purple sandpipers, common, herring and lesser 

 blackbacked gulls. 



Raven. — Ravens were seen working at a nearly finished nest on 

 the 23rd. 



Hooper. — On the morning of the 24th a gale from S.W. brought 

 twenty-eight hoopers. They flew quite low, uttering their usual 

 cries. 



Heron.— Herons are now leaving us. The rough weather and hard 

 frosts have caused many deaths among them. Several have been 

 picked up in a dying state far inland, and some days ago I found the 

 remains of two upon the beach at Hammer, 



Herring Citll. — Herring gulls began to pair about the end of the 

 month. 



Sky Lark. — Sky larks have been in full song during the whole of 

 this month. Even the heaviest snow-storms have not been able to 

 silence them. 



Snow Bunting. — The snow buntings, although so abundant iu 

 February, nearly all left us as soon as the bad weather commenced. 



Henry L, Saxby. 

 Baltasound, Shetland, March 31, 1866, 



Ortritliohgical Notes from North Lincolnshire. 

 By John Cordeaux, Esq. 



(Continued from S, S. 260.) 



May, 1866, 

 Whinibrel. — Very considerable flocks of these birds arrived in the 

 Humber district on or about the 3rd of May, on which day I observed 

 a flock of not less than two hundred fly over from the flats into the grass 



