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been obsen'ed and taken on the moors and tors near North-hill, viz. 

 Hawk's Tor, Kilmar, &c. 



Golden Oriole. — Sennen. A specimen now in my museum, in 

 brilliant adult plumage, was captured in the spring of 1859, in the 

 parish of St Buryan, the particulars of which are recorded in the 

 'Zoologist' for 1859. Two other adult male specimens have been 

 obtained, and a female taken in a boat, by a fisherman, near the 

 Land's End : Mr. Symons, of Mayon House, possesses one, and the 

 late Mr. Magor, of Redruth, had another, and also a female. A male 

 and female were observed and afterwards shot in Trescoe Abbey 

 gardens, Scilly, May 6lh, 1865, and a pair or two are observed nearly 

 every spring. 



(Three orioles, one of them in A'ery bright plumage, have appeared 

 together in the island of Trescoe, in the plantation of Mr. Smith, the 

 lord proprietor, during the last kw days. Mr. Smith informs me that 

 all the specimens that have been seen from time to time in Scilly have 

 occurred in Trescoe, and one reason may be that in that island alone 

 are there localities adapted by the plantations, evergreens and 

 flowering exotic shrubs on Mr. Smith's grounds for the bird nesting 

 and rearing its young. — May 14, 1867.) 



(To all appearance a pair of the golden oriole have adopted the 

 gardens at Trescoe as their summer nesting-place and nursery : they 

 appear generally together, and up to last week were to be seen daily as 

 far as I can learn with the usual indication of nesting. — June 20, 1867.) 



(The golden oriole has again appeared at Scilly this season ; one is 

 in beautiful plumage, as bright as a marigold, the other, probably the 

 female, in duller plumage. This species appears now to be a regular 

 spring visitor to the Scilly Islands in larger or smaller numbers ; but 

 hitherto they have disappeared when the season for breeding 

 advances, although to all appearance the birds have paired, and have 

 been seen to frequent close plantations, as though preparing for 

 nesting.— May 3, 1869.) 



(I have to communicate to you the appearance of the golden oriole 

 in large numbers at Trevethoe, about seven miles from Penzance, 

 towards the north coast. Mr. H. Manners, jun., was good enough to 

 bring for my inspection this morning two adult specimens, a male 

 and female, in the finest possible plumage. He shot them out of a 

 flock of eight last evening (April 21, 1870), and many others, at least 

 fifty, were distributed over a plantation where a considerable quantity 

 of high gorse prevails. I received by the Scilly packet to-day 



