4232 The Zoologist — November, 1874. 



kept it too long before bringing it over to be preserved, so that 

 all that remains of it is the head. 



In July a young Montagu's harrier was shot in Herm : it was 

 brought to Couch to skin : he found a whole lark's egg and also 

 the shell of another in its throat: he showed me how the whole 

 egg was sticking in the empty shell of the broken one. In one 

 wing it had evidently some old unmoulled feathers : they looked 

 more as if they were moth-ealen than anything else. These birds 

 must go to Herm after the game which is preserved there, and this 

 will account for their greater frequency there than here. 



The swallows are still with us. I have heard their song several 

 times since I last wrote (S. S. 4156). I also heard the house 

 marlins singing when I was in Yorkshire. 1 think the reason we 

 so seldom hear the song of these birds must be that — with all the 

 other songs of larger birds and with all the noises that there are in 

 the day time — this gentle liltle song is quite overpowered, and it 

 is only in quiet times, as at dawn, and in quiet country places, 

 that one can have an opportunity of hearing it. 



C. B. Carey. 



Candio, Guernsey, October IG, 1874. 



On the Nestimj of the Golden Oriole in Kent. 

 By J. E. Harting, Esq., F.L.S. 



(Reprinted from tbe ' Field ' newspaper of October 3rd.) 



Although the discovery of a golden oriole's nest in England is 

 not unprecedented, it is of sufficiently rare occurrence to attract 

 the attention of naturalists, more especially when the finder (as in 

 the case to which I am about to allude) has the humanity and good 

 sense to permit the young to be reared, instead of shooting the 

 parent birds the moment they are discovered, and thus effectually 

 putting a stop to all attempts at nidification. 



It is a pleasure to be able to record the fact that during the past 

 summer a pair of golden orioles took up their quarters in Dumpton 

 Park, Isle of Thanet, where — the proprietor, Mr. Bankes Tomlin, 

 having given strict injunctions that they should not be disturbed — 

 they built a nest and successfully reared their young, ultimately 

 leading them away in safely. 



They must have commenced building somewhat later than usual, 

 for it was not until the 6th of July that I first heard of the nest, 



