8824 The Zoologist — January, 1874. 



Chichester, while flying over some fields, and I again to-day 

 (November 5th) saw the remains of the skin, which had been par- 

 tially destroyed while in the birdstuffers hands, and on measuring 

 the wing as before, found it to be just twelve inches. The bird was 

 in mottled plumage, the central pair of feathers an inch beyond 

 those next. 



Stone Curlew. — November 5th. A backward bird of the year 

 killed on the hill-ground near here with down still attached to the 

 feathers of the forehead. 



Autumnal Migrations. — Tree pipit and yellow wagtail heard 

 passing over from the 5th of August to the end of the month, and 

 both species were numerous during the first few days of September. 

 The tree pipit breeds sparingly in some of our wooded parts ; but 

 the yellow wagtail is unknown here in the breeding season. By 

 the end of August most of the warblers have left; an occasional 

 common whitethroat or willow warbler seen. The first week in 

 September, whitelhroat, willow warbler (or chifTchaff) and flycatcher 

 seen; on the 4lh a solitary swift. Whinchats numerous on the 

 6th; wind N.W. ; none seen next day: a nightjar seen in a 

 nursery garden. 6lh. — Gray wagtail reappears from breeding 

 quarters. 7th. — ChifTchaff, whitethroat and flycatcher seen. 

 11th. — Dabchick returns. 15th. — Chiffchaff sings. 19th. — Lesser 

 redpoll reappears; chiffchaff and flycatcher seen ; tree pipit heard. 

 23rd. — Reed and sedge warblers and chiffchaff seen. 29th. — 

 Meadow pipit passing in flock. 30th. — Pied wagtail passing in 

 flock. Saw from twenty to thirty swallows in company on the 4th 

 of October, and on the 5lh several chiffchaffs; on the 12th missel 

 thrushes congregate, and on the 2Gth saw and heard a small 

 party of fieldfares at Fareham, in Hampshire : I notice this is 

 three days earlier than this species was observed in Surrey (see 

 Zool. S. S. 3790). 



W. Jefferv, jun. 



Eatham, Chichester, December 0, 1873. 



Bird Notes from the West. 

 By the Rev. Murray A. Mathew, M.A. 



Honey Buzzard. — About the middle of June a young male honey 

 buzzard was shot at Cothelestone, on the Quantock Hills. This is 

 the first occurrence of the species, as far as I know, in the county 



