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the tree was between us flying off to the next; it seemed perfectly 

 aware of its value, and thus led me onfrom tree to tree, till it finally 

 left the plantation. I saw either this bird or another in the same place 

 on the 22nd of the month. 



Food of Wood Pigeon. — In the crop of one, shot November 1st, found 

 seventy-six grains of barley ; in the gizzard, partly digested barley 

 with the usual accompaniment of sharp angular stones. November 

 27th. One shot late in the evening: in the crop four hundred and 

 thirty grains of barley, one charlock seed and a few fragments of red 

 clover plant ; gizzard, barley and small stones, 



December 24th. Heard a blackbird and a thrush in full song in the 

 garden this morning. 



John Cordeaux. 

 Great Cotes, Ukeby, Lincolnshire, 

 December 28, 1866. 



Ornithological Notes from Norfolk. By Henry Stevenson, Esq. 

 (Continued from Zool. S. S. 442). 



September, 1866. 



Summer Warblers.* — Blackcap and garden warblers, with their 

 v young, seen in the garden up to the 12th ; spotted flycatchers to the 

 14th ; swifts last seen on the 7th of September. 



Hobby. — A fine adult male, killed at Fundenhall on the 5th, had the 

 remains of a young nightjar in its stomach, and about the same time 

 an immature male was killed at Filby. 



Gray Phalarope. — Although such an unusual number of these birds 

 were obtained during the autumn in the South of England, I know of 

 but one observed in this county, which was killed by an old woman 

 with a stick, as it fluttered about in a small pool of water on Swar- 

 deston Common, near Norwich. 



Starlings hawking for Flies. — I can fully confirm the statement of 

 my friend Mr. Barton, of Fundenhall (Zool. S. S. 310), as to starlings 

 occasionally imitating the actions of house martins, when hawking for 

 flies in the higher regions of the atmosphere : knowing his accurate 

 observation of small matters, I could not doubt the fact, although at 

 that time the habit had never come under my own notice. On the 



* A strange error occurred in my previous notes (Zool. S. S. 441), " Migratory 

 warblers" being printed for " migratory waders" in describing godwits and knots. 

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