$100 THE ZooLocist—J UNE, 1872. 
when there he was daily amused by watching the actions of a pair 
of ravens which had a nest in the cliffs, and that one of these birds 
became so familiar with his presence that it really seemed pleased 
with his company, and would actually fly to meet him every 
morning when he approached the place, alight within a few yards 
of his feet, eyeing him knowingly all the while, without exhibiting 
the slightest symptom of fear; that on one occasion, when coming 
round a sudden turn on the cliff, a long way from the place, 
happening to see his friend flying quickly by in quite another 
direction, he stopped and exclaimed, “ Hulloa there! where are 
you going in such a hurry?” when the bird actually turned round 
and alighted on a wall close by his side, afterwards following him 
all the way to the spot on the the top of the cliff just under which 
the nest was placed. By its extraordinary boldness my friend 
thought that the bird might have been once kept in confinement, 
but I have no doubt it was only to attract attention from its nest 
and young. Strange to say its mate would never approach within 
a hundred yards. He also said it was quite laughable to see how 
fond the bird seemed of alighting on the backs of the sheep, some- 
times driving the whole flock “helter skelter” across the field. 
Jackdaws were exceedingly numerous in this locality, and on one 
occasion he observed the back of a donkey quite black with them. 
Lesser Blackbacked Gull, Green Woodpecker and Montaguw’s 
Harrier.—Lesser blackbacked gulls seem to have entirely taken 
the place of the greater: observed fifty this morning on the “‘ West 
Mud” and many flying about in the harbour at the same time, 
uttering an almost incessant cackling or laughing cry. Heard the 
blackcap and willow wren in full song at Antony, on the Cornish 
side of the river Tamar, and saw several green woodpeckers, one of 
which was hopping over the fields at a tremendous pace, every 
now and then suddenly stopping to thrust or stab its bill into the 
earth for a minute or so; but it really was quite surprising to see 
the speed at which it hopped along. In the evening my friend 
Mr. F. Brent, of Plymouth, kindly presented me with a magnificent 
adult male Montagu’s harrier, which he had that day purchased 
from the warrener at Trowlesworthy, on Dartmoor; from the crop 
and stomach of which I took no less than fourteen lizards, of two 
species, nearly perfect and each full six inches long. The tails of 
many of them were off, but still lying perfect by the sides of the 
reptiles in the bird’s stomach, and it is well known that the tails of 
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