THE ZooLoGist—JANUARY, 1872. 2911 
3rd.—The whitetailed eagle mentioned already shot in Alderney. 4th.—I 
saw a great many flocks of starlings; very probably these have come from 
Alderney, as an immense number have been there. 8th.—A_ redbreasted 
merganser, a turnstone, a ring dotterel and a snipe were shot by Mr. Cecil 
Smith. 11th—Saw in the market, Norfolk plover, jack snipe, fieldfare, 
song thrushes, missel thrushes and blackbirds. The fieldfares were selling 
for fourpence each; missel thrushes at fourpence a couple; no wonder 
they are shot if they fetch that price. 14th.—The whitetailed eagle, which 
was shot here. 
During this month one or two “shell parrots” have been shot, 
apparently not having been in confinement. The only way I can account 
for this is, that a year or two ago a gentleman brought some of these pretty 
birds over here in hopes of getting them to breed, and some have escaped 
the gun up to the present time—C. B. Carey; Candie, Guernsey, 
December 14, 1871. 
Another Whitetailed Eagle in Guernsey.—Since I wrote last another 
whitetailed eagle (Haliaétus albicilla) has been shot, and Mr. Couch is now 
preserving it for Mr. Cecil Smith. It is a rare occurrence that two such 
eagles should be shot within a fortnight so near each other (onein Alderney 
the other here). It was a little smaller than the other, measuring, from 
beak to tail, two feet eleven inches ; tip to tip of wing, six feet nine and a 
half inches ; beak, three inches and three-eighths. It was shot on Tuesday, 
the 14th of November, in a field where some sheep were feeding ; probably 
it was going to choose one for its dinner.—C. B. Carey; November 17, 1871. 
Foot of the Whitetailed Eagle The feet of the whitetailed eagles I 
have had are not reticulated as described by Yarrell; the front of tarsus in 
my specimens, if they are the whitetailed eagles, have seven scales; side 
and back of tarsus reticulated; between the last scale and the scales of 
middle toe are seven or nine lines of reticulations, twelve scales on the 
middle toe, six on theinner toe, four on the outer toe, and four on the hind 
toe; remainder of toes, inner, outer and hind toes, reticulated.—James 
Couch ; 16, Pollet Street, Guernsey, December 9, 1871. 
Hen Harrier, Norfolk Plover and Redbreasted Merganser in Somerset- 
shire.—On the 26th of November, Mr. Haddon, of Taunton, showed a very 
fine specimen of the hen harrier: it had been shot a few days before on the 
Blagden Hills not far from Taunton; it was a young bird of the year, and 
from the size I think a heft bird. The gentleman who shot it shortly 
afterwards sent over a quail to be stuffed with it, which he had shot near 
the same place a few days later. In the case of the Norfolk plover, instead 
of the usual verdict in these cases, of “ wilful murder,” I must return the 
more open verdict of “found dead ;” it was picked up ata place called 
Wrexton Gorse, near Crowarnlee, Heathfield, on the 21st of November; it 
was a young bird, a veritable thickknee with the swelled legs. The probable 
