1846 Thk Zoologist— Skptembek, 1869. 



be obliged byj'our iiifeiiing' them in llie ' Z.jologisl.' — O^iva'.d Moslnj ; RAleslon Hall, 

 Burton-utt-Tienl, May 31, ISti;*. 



Ornilhtilngical Noles from South Devon. — A fine male peregrine, also ;i leiiiale, 

 were caugbt in a gin in I'.iis iifiyliliourhoo.l ; llie former on llie 27lli of M ly, ibe 

 latler on llie 3rd of June. Anutlier not fuily-fledged female of this sjiecits was shot 

 near Walconibe, Torquay : a second young bird was seen at the same tiniy. Tliere is 

 an eyrie near that place in the cliff, to which the above-meniioncd birds inosi likely 

 belonged, and it is said to be annually resorted to by a pair of these birds: there is 

 also a peregrine's eyrie near Dartmouth, and another at Start Point. 



Havens. These birds have built in the cliffs at VVatcombe from time immeniorial : 

 their nests are placed about h.ilf way up the cliff, and are difficult of access, aliiiougli 

 they and their contents are easily perceptible from the top. 



Raz irbill. A razorbill, still in the downy plumage, was shot in Torbay on the 7tli 

 of July : this fact would seem to prove Torbay (or rather the cliffs) to be a breedin,' 

 place of this bird, althou;;h I have only received a negative answer to my iuquiiies 

 fioni n;itivcswell acquainted with the Ornithology of this place and neighbourhood. 



Glaucous Gull. One of these birds was shot hist winter (January, 18()9) in 

 Torliay, as also another iu the winter of 1867. Both these gulls were in the mottled, 

 immature plumage: although this record of their occurrence is very tardy, they 

 are birds of sufficient rarity to be worth even so lite a notice. — .1 tie Il'djtt ; Florian, 

 Torquay, July 16, It^Oy. 



Tke Percijrine Falcon breeding in Lancashire. — I knew ))y repute that a pair of 

 peregrines reared a nest of younj; in the Spring of 1868, on a rocky cliff beyond IJawks- 

 lieail, and ibis year they had four young ones in llie same ]>lKce, one of wliicti incau- 

 tiously let iis wing hang over the edge of the ledge it was up<m, and a shot pinioned it, 

 so that as it attempted to fly it came to the groui.d ami was secured, and is now in my 

 aviary a lame and magnificent iiird : the other three were shot by "a keeper." The 

 oM birds are still at large.— C. S. Grcg.ioti ; Fletcher Grove, Slanli-y, July 31, 1869. 



Owl on liishopsgale Church. — A few evenings ago, when walking near Bishopsgate 

 Chtiieh about 7 P.M., I saw a white owl (Sirix flammea), v^'hicb, after hovering for a 

 short lime over the roof, alighted ihereon: its appearance caused quite a commotion 

 amongst its observers, many of whom evidently regarded it as a rara avis. Some 

 persons whistled violently, and others hooted at it, expecting probably to frighten it 

 away, but it walked about very deliberately, and seemed so much inclined to stay 

 awhile that I was compelled to walk on without noticing its departure: a church 

 mouse or two would doubtless have been very acceptable to ii. — //. Bloomfield, 

 July 21, 1869. 



Missel Thru-ih. — The following observations may perhaps be worthy of record : — 

 In April hist, about the middle of the month, a pair of missel thrushes com-nenced 

 building in a large oak in a garden at Tottenham. On the 16th April 1 observed one 

 of these thrushes endeavouring to cany uj) to its nest a piece of white paper as large 

 as half a sheet of full-sized note paper; but the wind was high at the time, and inter- 

 fered wiih the bird's efforts, which, after repeated attempts, it at length abandoned. 

 After the hen bird had commenced incubation the male became very noisy and pugna- 

 cious, diiving off every other bird which settled on t'le oak in which the thrushes had 

 built. On the 3rd May the male missel ihrush disappeared, having probably been 

 shot or captured by a biid-i;alchcr. On the morning of the 5lh or 6th May, the hen 



