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Kings of Norway and Denmark have long ago given up the Shetlands ; the 

 latter retains the Faeroes, but I apprehend that if he followed the same course 

 with the latter isles all naturalists would have no choice but to include them. 

 The whole question is a satire on making collections in districts politically 

 united, which do not include the whole of the group of islands geographically, 

 but on the other hand include districts that geographically belong to other 

 countries, the Channel Islands being strictly French islands and the 

 island of Heligoland strictly German. I may observe that some of the 

 Channel Islands, the Chansee Archipelago, for instance, are Freucli both 

 geographically and politically. Could the English Channel Islands be 

 included and the French excluded? — J. Jenner Weir. 



The Channel Islands Fauna. — In reading with interest the discussion in 

 the pages of the ' Zoologist' as to the propriety of including the birds of the 

 Channel Islands in the British list, I notice that a strong contrast is drawn 

 between the treatment accorded to the Flora and the Fauna of these islands, 

 apparently in forgetfulness of the fact that by conchologists (laud and marine), 

 and I believe also by the students of most branches of marine Zoology, the 

 inhabitants of the Channel Islands have long since been " annexed" to the 

 British Fauna. — Henry T. Mennell ; London, December 9, 1872. 



The Channel Islands Fauna.— I am glad you have given your approval 

 to the proposition that the Channel Islands should be included in the 

 Fauna of the United Kingdom. I am sure that a great many naturalists 

 who annually visit these islands will be pleased with this decision. The 

 Channel Islands are not so rich in Lepidoptera as Mr. Birchall would lead 

 us to suppose. They have been already well worked in this department by 

 resident entomologists without any very grand results in the shape of new 

 British species, although some of the rarer British species are of common 

 occurrence. You are mistaken in giving Guernsey as a locality for Daplidice; 

 it is a species which never occurs here, although tolerably common in Jersey; 

 but even there they are not to be captured by the hundred. — W. A. Luff; 

 Mansell Street, Guernsey. 



Notes from Guernsey, — There have been very few birds about this 

 autumn, except turnstones ; these are veiy plentiful. The shags also are 

 numerous. I saw, at Mr. Couch's, on the 7th of November, two shell 

 panrots, in the flesh, which had been shot in the island ; a flock of them 

 has been seen : last year also several were shot : it is a pity they are not 

 let alone, we might then have them even more frequently than now : 

 I have not been able to ascertain if they breed here. The swallows left us 

 very late ; I noticed them collecting on the 17th of October, and they left 

 between the 17th and 20th. — C. B. Carey; Candie, Guernsey. 



Osprey at Hempstead. — During the first week of August the keeper at 

 Hempstead shot at a large hawk as it flew ofi" a tree. He could not mark 

 ■where it went down, and it was spoiled when he found it. It proved to be 



