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at other game, and the Woodpeckers, unable to screen themselves in the 
leafless trees, have fallen victims.—Murray A. Maruew (Bishop’s Lydeard, 
Taunton). 
[Does not the fact of so large a number of Woodpeckers being found in 
one district seem to indicate a migratory movement towards the south-west 
on the part of this species? ‘There is reason to suppose that the Greater 
Spotted Woodpecker is to a certain extent migratory. (See Yarrell, 3rd ed., 
vol. ii., p. 155, and Saxby’s ‘ Birds of Shetland,’ p. 138). Possibly this is 
the case also with the Green Woodpecker. The appearance of this bird of 
late years in Cornwall, where it was formerly unknown (Rodd, Zool. 1876, 
p- 4796) is very remarkable, and seems to bear upon the question at 
issue.— Ep. | 
BreepDinc or THE Turrep Duck in NorrincHamMsyine.—In the 
summer of 1878 a nest of the Tufted Duck was mown out not far from 
the decoy at Park Hall, near Mansfield. The eggs were taken at once to 
the housekeeper (a clever hand at rearing poultry of all kinds), who 
hatched them out under a hen, and succeeded in rearing seven, feeding 
them the same as common ducks, worms also being given them in a tin 
of water to dive for. In the autumn, when full grown, the ducks left the 
yard and joined the wild ones of their own species in the decoy, numbers of 
which frequent the pond, and were lost sight of, the housekeeper being 
congratulated on her success in rearing such tender birds, and no more was 
thought about them. However, one day in June last a Tufted Duck was 
seen by some of the servants at Park Hall to fly over and settle in the yard 
at the back of the house, and try to get in at the kitchen-door, and also the 
hen-coops. On the housekeeper being told she went out, and giving the 
same call she had been in the habit of using when feeding the young ducks 
the previous year, it immediately ran to her aud followed her into the 
kitchen, and ate out of a saucer and from her hand. ‘This it did for several 
days, until one morning it appeared followed by eleven young ones, all of 
which, after being fed, were placed in a coop, but having got so wet by 
being dragged through the long wet grass—the lake being fully a quarter 
of a mile from the house—they all died. This is the first instance in which 
LThave heard of the ‘Tufted Duck, of its own free will leaving its wilder 
brethren and bringing its young to the poultry yard to be fed; but no 
doubt the bird was influenced by kindly recollections of good treatment the 
year before.—J. Wuirakkr (Rainworth Lodge, near Mansfield). 
PereGrinE Fatcon in Hampsuire.—On November 6th I saw a bird 
of this species, which I think is worthy of remark. It was shot a day or 
two previously near the river, where it had been observed for a week or ten 
days, and is said to have killed a large number of wildfowl during that 
period. It was a female, and, unlike the condition of many of the 
