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lizards are apt to drop or be cast off on the least touch. How 
quick the sight and action of this bird must be, for we are well 
aware of the agile movements of the lizard, which on the least 
appearance of danger generally vanishes in the twinkling of an 
eye. Immature Montagu’s harriers are now and then obtained on 
our moors, but the fully adults are rarely seen. 
Ring Ouzel, Lapwing, Curlew, Heron, Swallow and Common 
Sandpiper.—April 15. With a friend fishing on the Avon, as far as 
Huntingdon Warren, also on Dartmoor. Observed during the day 
several green woodpeckers, three common sandpipers, many ring 
ouzels, large flocks of lapwings, a heron, some curlews, which I am 
told breed in the neighbourhood, and one swallow, the first for the 
season; also came across the feathers of a ring dove, which had 
doubtless been killed by some large hawk. 
April 19. Weather quite changed, wind N.E. and very cold, not- 
withstanding which I saw several swallows and sand martins, and 
heard many willow wrens, a few blackcaps, and the wood lark in 
full song. 
April 21. Bitter weather, with snow. Blackbirds singing beauti- 
fully in our garden. 
April 23. Wind S.W., blowing hard but warm. Birds again in 
full song. Heard the blackcap, willow wren, missel thrush and 
many others. Saw a fine common buzzard and raven, which I am 
sorry to say were killed in the neighbourhood of Plymouth a few 
days before. 
Lesser Blackbacked Gull.—April 30. Lesser blackbacked gulls 
still very numerous. Counted sixty on a mud-bank in the harbour: 
indeed there is no other species to be seen here now, except the 
herring gulls, a few pairs of which breed in the neighbourhood ; but 
I suppose the lesser blackbacks will be soon taking themselves off, 
as I know of no breeding-station for them in this locality. 
J. GATCOMBE. 
8, Lower Durnford Street, Stonehouse, Devon, 
May 4, 1872. 
Erratum.—There was an error in the third line at the beginning of my notes for 
February. Instead of ‘‘ Observed several flocks flying round and dipping in the water 
full a quarter of a mile from the shore,” it should haye been ‘Observed several 
rooks.”—J. G. 
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