3272 Tue ZooLocist—OcrToBER, 1872. 
Should any readers of the ‘ Zoologist’ be enabled to add either 
to the number of heronries above mentioned, or to the particulars 
respecting them, any communication on the subject will be 
acceptable. 
J. E. Hartine. 
24, Lincoln’s Inn Fields. 
Squirrel Swimming.—Southwold, Suffolk, August 19. Walking home 
along the river wall about 7 a.m. this morning, my brother observed an 
animal swimming to land some three or four yards from the bank; he ran 
to intercept it, and found it to be a squirrel: it swam with ease, and after 
landing on the mud jumped into a pool of water in order to reach the river 
wall, without the slightest hesitation. On my brother’s approach it grunted 
in the way peculiar to these animals; it must have crossed two or three 
ditches and the river, in all about seventy yards of water, and was no doubt 
on its way to some firs about two hundred yards distant, but where it came 
from must be a matter for conjecture, as there were no suitable trees within 
some distance.—H. Durnford ; 1, Stanley Road, Waterloo, Liverpool. 
Montagu’s Harrier.—It is scarcely worth noticing specimens of this 
harrier in the Land’s End district, for their occurrence is now quite frequent, 
and far more so than its congener, the common harrier. They breed every 
year in the Lizard district, where several have from time to time been 
trapped (see former numbers of the ‘ Zoologist.’) A female with a fine bay 
immaculate breast and belly, with the upper plumage dark umber-brown, 
with ferruginous edgings denoting the immature plumage of birds of the 
year, was brought here a day or two since from the Lizard. I have 
mentioned in a former communication that the most tempting lure for this 
species is the common viper—Hdward Hearle Rodd; Penzance, Sep- 
tember 12, 1872. 
Dartford Warbler, Sylvia wndata, Boddaert.—Is abundant in the furze- 
covered commons included in the area of Wolmer Forest, Hampshire. At 
the end of April this year, when walking over the forest with Mr. Howard 
Saunders, we disturbed seven or eight of them within a radius of fifty yards, 
from furze-bushes on Polecat Hill. They are not confined to this spot, for 
I have noticed them distributed over Weaver's Down, and all the other 
furze-commons in the neighbourhood. Two nests with eggs were sent to 
me this year from Wolmer.—H. W. Feilden; Woolwich. 
Baillon’s Crake.—The shooting of a small crake near Ramsay, Isle of 
Man, in the year 1847, will be found recorded in the ‘ Zoologist’ (Zool. 
5280), which, on account of its diminutive size, was taken to be the little 
crake, and it is only of late that I have felt sure that it was not the Crex 
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