3688 The Zoologist — September, 1873. 



spotted woodpecker, in Dearne Woods, on the 26th of December ; the velvet 

 scoter (or velvet duck), the pochard, scaup and tufted ducks, on Hiendley 

 Reservoir, on the 25th of January, 1873; the goldeneye, golden plover and 

 lesser grebe, with hundreds of coots, on the 1st of February, on this fine 

 sheet of water, belonging to the Barnsley and Wakefield Canal Company ; 

 the waxwing (or Bohemian chatterer), at Cannon Hall Park, on the 12th of 

 February ; a pair of great crested grebes, at AVorsbro' Reservoir, on the 19 th 

 of April. I regret that the last-named and many of the above were shot. — 

 T. Lister; Barnsley. 



Orangelegged Ilobby, &x. — As it is always a matter of interest to 

 ornithologists to know where rare species of British birds are located, 

 perhaps you will allow me to record that the specimen of the orangelegged 

 hobby (female), mentioned in your last as having been killed at Alresford, 

 near this town, and all the four specimens of pintaUed sand grouse 

 {Syrrhaptes paradoxus) killed in Essex in 1863, — one male and two females 

 at Mersea (see Prof. Newton's paper, ' Ibis,' 1864), and one female killed 

 at Peldon, near here, but not mentioned in that account, — have been added 

 to my private collection. — C. R. Bree; Colchester, July 12, 1873. 



Hlontagn's Harrier at Alderney. — One of these birds was shot at 

 Alderney last week: it is an adult male, in full plumage. I saw it at 

 Mr. Couch's, who has preserved and stuffed it. — C. B. Carey; Candle, 

 Guernsey, July, 1873. 



missel Tlirnshes Nesting in Roclis. — These birds are very rare visitants 

 to our neighbourhood excepting in hard winters, and then they are not 

 numerous. Last year, however, a pair built a nest on a small ledge or 

 niche on a perfectly bare rock at the entrance of St. David's Harbour; but 

 what became of the brood I am unable to say, as I never saw one of the 

 young ones on the wing. This season a pair (probably the same) buUt their 

 nest over the old one, and although within a few yards or even feet of 

 where vessels trading to the harbour continually passed, yet they success- 

 fully " brought down" a brood of fine young ones, which I have repeatedly 

 seen on the wing in the neighbourhood of the nest. I may as well add 

 that this district is almost entirely destitute of trees — so much so that it is 

 an old adage " that whoever^ cuts a horse-rod in St. David's parish is liable 

 to a fine of five pounds," and that for a very good reason, for there are 

 none to be had. — Samuel Williams; St, David's, Jm?</ 25, 1873. — Frorn 

 the 'Field' of August 2nrf. 



Yellowhanimcr's Nest in a Fruit Tree against a Wall.— On the 2oth 

 of July I found, in a garden in Fifeshire, two yellowhammers' nests built 

 in fruit trees against the garden wall, the one five feet and the other seven 

 feet from the ground. The latter was placed on the remains of a black- 

 bird's nest which had been destroyed. — Walter T. Ogilvy ; British Museum, 

 August 11, 1873. 



