$138 Tue ZooLtocist—JuLy, 1872. 
from the same locality. There were two young birds in the nest 
when the man went down, but one was accidentally thrown out, 
falling on the rocks two hundred feet below. The one saved seems 
to thrive well, although almost entirely covered with down, and 
only a few short feathers appearing on the wings and tail. What a 
pity it is that there is, as yet, no “close season” for every kind of 
bird. This young peregrine falcon generally lies down, but now 
and then sits bolt upright, resting on the whole length of its 
tarsus, like the guillemot, the large feet seemingly quite weak and 
powerless. 
Herring Gulls and Ring Doves following the Plough.—Ilt was a 
very pretty sight to watch the herring gulls, in their beautiful snowy 
dress, tripping after the plough in the fields near their breeding- 
places, at the Land’s End, and I also observed two or three ring 
ring doves similarly engaged; but my friend Mr. Mathew tells me 
that a week or two ago he was much surprised on seeing a flock of 
full fifty ring doves following the plough, on his way to Kingsbridge, 
Devon: of course, they were looking for certain roots and seeds 
turned up, and not for worms and grubs, like the gulls. 
Lesser Blackbacked Gull.—The adult lesser blackbacked gulls 
have now nearly all left us for their breeding-stations, but on the 
81st I saw a flock of nearly one hundred immature birds, in the 
gray or rather brown dress, resting in a field near the water, with 
only two or three old ones among them. I have often remarked 
that a certain number of gulls might be seen keeping by them- 
selves, far away from the breeding-stations, during the whole spring 
and summer: these, I suspect, are young birds of the previous 
year, and “non-breeders” for the time being. 
Partridge and Pheasant laying in the same Nest.—The keeper 
at Port Eliot, the seat of the Earl of St. Germans, Cornwall, met 
with a curious circumstance lately, having found partridge’s and 
pheasant’s eggs in the same nest. 
Spotted Flycatcher.—The spotted flycatcher seems to be very 
scarce and late with us this season: I have observed but two, and 
those not until nearly the end of the month. 
J. GATCOMBE. 
8, Lower Durnford Street, Stonehouse, Plymouth, 
June 5, 1872. 
