4370 THE Zootocist—Marcu, 1875. 
have shot one in the morning when looking for game, and finding 
after he reached home that the bird was a rarity, he went back 
to the same field, where he flushed and killed the second. A third 
is said to have been seen since in the same neighbourhood. ‘The 
bodies were eaten, and are said to have been “exceedingly good ;” 
but I do not understand that the sex was determined by dissection. 
They were, of course, like the others, in full winter plumage. From 
the appearance of these five birds between the first and last week 
of December, it seems likely that a small flock alighted somewhere 
upon our southern coast, and from thence became dispersed. 
HENRY STEVENSON. 
Norwich, January 22, 1875. 
Ornithological Notes from Devonshire, Cornwall, §c. 
By Joun GatcomBe, Esq. 
(Continued from 8, S. 4255.) 
NovEMBER, 1874. 
. 1st. Observed a peregrine falcon flying over our house from the 
direction of Mount Edgcumbe. 
3rd. Remarked an immature black redstart on the rocks under 
the Plymouth Hoe. This species invariably makes its appearance 
during the first week of November in our neighbourhood. 
5th. I saw another black redstart on the Devil’s Point, Stone- 
house, this morning, and was told of a fine old male having been 
captured alive by a birdcatcher a few days since, but it could not 
be tempted to take food. 
6th. Visited Dartmoor, where I observed very large flocks of 
fieldfares, apparently just arrived. There were some ravens in the 
rabbit warrens and a great many magpies on the outskirts of the 
moor. 
7th. A Dartford warbler was caught by a birdcatcher at Bovisand, 
which, strange to say, alighted on one of his limed twigs close to a 
furze-brake: its stomach contained the remains of flies and minute 
beetles. Many white and brown owls have lately been trapped and 
brought to the birdstuffers; the stomachs of the latter named birds 
contained quantities of the common dung beetle. Observed another 
black redstart near Stonehouse. 
10th. Very cold; wind N.E. Flocks of fieldfares and redwings 
close to the town. 
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