3144 Tue ZooLocist—Juty, 1872. 
diet for a seal ina poor man’s possession; and, I may add, it is for sale. 
It gets a shower-bath sometimes.—J. Sclater ; Castle Eden Dene, June Ds 
1872. 
Ornithological Notes from North Wales.—On the 28th of May I walked 
up to a mountain lake for the purpose of trout fishing, and made the 
following notes, which may perhaps be of some interest to the readers of the 
‘ Zoologist.’ In passing through a wood I saw a pied flycatcher, a fine male, 
in beautiful plumage. In a hedge by the wayside I found two nests of the 
‘esser redpole: these little birds breed with us every year: one day last 
week I found no less than seven nests; they were mostly built in the 
bushes that overhung the River Dee, and I was much struck with the 
beautiful way in which they were lined with the down from the catkins of 
the willow. On the bare open fields, which are surrounded by high stone 
walls and have been reclaimed from the moor, lapwings were extremely 
numerous, wheeling round overhead and making the air resound with their 
continual cry of “ peewit.” Wheatears perched upon the walls, among 
which I noticed some of this year’s young ones. Whinchats and stonechats 
were flitting about and continually perching on the tops of the highest 
bushes of the gorse: a few of the latter stay with us through the winter. 
On the moor I noticed several curlews, which were evidently in a high state 
of anxiety about their young ones, for they flew round about overhead within 
gunshot, uttering the while their peculiarly wild and interesting note: these 
birds breed in considerable numbers on all the surrounding moors, and I have 
often found their nests. Snipes were numerous in all the bogs, and on 
being put up actually began to “‘drum.” Fine old male ring ouzels, with 
conspicuous white collars, perched upon the rocks, uttering their harsh note ; 
while the females and young ones of this year, already out of the nest, were 
continually rising out of the heather, and, after flying a short distance, 
dropping into it again. On the lake a wild duck with her brood was 
swimming about; while a pair of old coots, also followed by their numerous 
progeny, retreated to the immediate shelter of a bed of rushes on my 
approach. From aclump of heath not far from the water I put up a teal, 
which evidently had eggs or young ones in the vicinity, for she flew round 
and round me, sometimes so close that I might almost have struck her with 
a stick, feigning to be wounded and adopting every possible device that was 
calculated to attract me from the spot. After staying for some time 
I returned home, infinitely more pleased with the variety of bird-life to be 
seen on our Welsh moors than the fishing, for the trouting qualities of the 
lake, whatever other attractions it might have possessed, were not of first- 
rate order.—W. J. Kerr ; Denbighshire, North Wales. 
Birds attracted by Lighthouses.—The following killed themselves against 
the Portland high light (Dorsetshire) and were sent to me :—Lesser tern, 
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