436 The Zoologist — October, 1866. 



leisurely inspected my friend. Not beingf what we wanted, we took ofif our hats to her, 

 and patiently waited for the monarch of the forest to make iiis appearance. Presently 

 he did so, but approaching very cautiously : tins is always the case with the bucks ; the 

 does come within five yards, and have a good look at you. My friend had a shot, but 

 unfortunately missed. We then proceeded to another place, a sort of ravine, on one 

 side of which we were posted. No sooner had the call sounded than the rapid foot- 

 fall of an approaching roe was heard. A second or two after a pair of horns appeared 

 above the bank, and ray friend and I fired, rolling the deer over to the bottom of the 

 ravine with a ball through the neck and head. What was our surprise and that of the 

 keeper, on descending to where the deer fell, to find it was a doe, but with a pair of 

 horns. The horns were covered with hair, but perfectly hard. One was about six 

 inches long, with a small branch ; the other about three inches without any branch. 

 But one occurrence of this sort has ever been heard of in these parts. — Anon., in 

 ' Field ' Newspaper. 



Bail of Cow's Hair. — My father has in his possession a ball somewhat similar to 

 that described by Mrs. Battersby in the last number of the ' Zoologist' (S. S. 385), but 

 of much larger size. Its shape is that of a flattened sphere, the diameter being 

 2^ inches by 3} inches, the weight 5 ounces. The exterior is rough, of stony hardness 

 and earthy colour; the interior a solid mass of cow's hair: there is no central hollow, 

 HS in the case described by .Mrs. Battersby. The ball was taken many years ago from 

 the stomach of a cow, and I have no doubt was formed in the manner suggested in 

 the note appended to Mrs. Battersby 's communication, but it is not so easy to under- 

 stand how a ball with a central hollow could be so produced. — Edwin Birchall i 

 Bradford, September 1, 1866. 



Ornithological Notes from North Wales. 

 By John Cordeaux, Esq. 



July, 1866. 



The following observations are wrilten from notes taken during a 

 recent tour throtigh a portion of North Wales. I have selected from 

 my note-book what I thought would most interest the readers of the 

 * Zoologist.' 



Kestrel. — This species is extremely common in North Wales. 

 Their usual nesting-place is a ledge or fissure of some precipice 

 inaccessible to bird-nester.';, and this circumstance, conjoined with the 

 scarcity of gamekeepers, probably accounts for their numbers. I found 

 two nests thus placed within twenty yards of each other on the 

 southern face of the cliff called Craig Cwm Bychan, a buttress of the 

 noble Mynydd Mawr, overlooking the lovely Llyn Cwellyn. One of 

 these nests was built on a narrow ledge of this rqck, protected from 

 above by an immense projecting crag forming a natural canopy. The 



