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Peregrine Falcon, and Merlin in Nnrfnlk.—Au immature female of the peregrine 

 was shot, on the 30th of October, at Giinion, near Norwich. On the 26ih of September 

 a mature female merlin, from Briston; on the 28th an immature male, at Hanworth; 

 and, from Briston, an immature male on the lOth of November, and a female (also 

 immature) on the 13xh. The stomach of the first-named merlin contained the remains 

 of two nestling thrushes, with the wings swallowed entire, which show the stumps of 

 the partly-developed feathers. — T. E. Gunn. 



Merlin at Faversham. — A male specimen of the merlin, in fine plumage, was shot 

 at Faversham, on the 3rd of this month. — John Hunter; Faversham, November 18, 

 1868. 



Roughlegged Buzzard in Suffolk. — On the 7th of October a beautiful specimen of 

 the roughlegged buzzard was shot at Knoddishall, near Saxmundhara. The bird was 

 killed while hovering over a pond on which were some ducks. — T. E. Gunn. 



Great Gray Shrike at Dover. — I received a great gray shrike, in the flesh, from 

 Dover, on the 14th of November. It had only one while spot on the wing, and the 

 breast is marked with numerous grayish semilunar lines ; hence 1 conclude it is a 

 female. ^Mr. Stevenson remarks (' Birds of Norfolk,' p. 62) that he has examined old 

 females which showed no trace of these semilunar markings, and were exactly like 

 males, with, I presume, two white spots on the wing. — /. H. Gurney,jun. 



Great Gray Shrike in Norfolk. — A male specimen of the great gray shrike was 

 killed, on the lOih of November, at Martham. Its stomach was filled with the 

 feathers and bones of some small bird and a grain of wheat— do doubt from the 

 gizzard of its prey. — T. E. Gunn. 



Piebald Variety of the Ring Ouzel. — lu the early part of October a singular- 

 variety of the ring ouzel was shot at Gunton, near Lowestoft. It is an adult male, 

 with a perfect white gorget: the feathers of the throat are deeply margined with asli- 

 gray, intermixed with a few white ones, and from the angle of the mouth on each side 

 a white longitudinal patch extends, giving the bird the appearance of having a 

 moustache. — Id. 



Golden Oriole near Faversham. — A female specimen of the golden oriole was shot 

 in an orchard near Faversham early in the autumn. The man who shot it stated that 

 it was in company with another bird of the same species. — John Hunter. 



Variety of the Robin. — I have a beautiful variety of the robin. The head and 

 neck are of the usual colour; the breast red, mottled with white; back suffused with 

 white; wings tipped with white, with two or three wing-coverts white ; some of the 

 wing-coverts tipped with red; rump white; tail with two white feathers and four 

 others tipped with white. Although the bird was shot I have made a good specimen 

 of it. It was killed on the 7th of December, 1868, at Ipswich. — T. Last; Borough 

 Road, Ipsioich. 



Fireerested Regains at Brighton. — A specimen of the very rare visitor, Regulus 

 ignicapillus, has been shot in this neighbourhootl, and is in the hands of J. Pratt, the 

 naturalist, of Brighton. — T. W. Wonfor. 



Richard's Pipit at Brighton. — Four specimens of Richard's pipit have been shot ii» 

 the neighbourhood of Brighton within the last month (November).— M 



Shore Lark in Captivity. — I have in my possession a shore lark {Alanda alpestris% 

 which was taken in a net under the cliff near Dover. With the specimen of Richard's 

 pipit previously recorded in the ' Zoologist' (S. S. 1458) as having been captured neav 

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