4710 THE ZooLocist—DeEcEMBER, 1875. 
low grounds near our small stream. I do not recollect at any time 
ever having seen more than a pair in this situation before. These 
I fancy must have been a migratory flock, particularly as on going 
down to the same place two days later I could not find any, either 
there or anywhere in the vicinity. _ 
Fieldfare.—October 28th. First fieldfare seen; have arrived in 
very large flocks. 
Redlegged Partridge.— October 28th. One was shot on the 
neighbouring farm to mine on this date; another, I am told, on the 
same farm last season. These are the only two I have known shot 
in this immediate neighbourhood. 
Buzzard.—The strong 8. and §.E. gales must have driven 
several buzzards on our east coast. I have heard of “ big hawks” 
in several localities, and have myself seen three—all buzzards. 
When shooting, on the 3rd of November, over some young spruce 
plantations on the side of a glen known as “ Deep-dales,” near 
Croxby Lake, on the wolds, I saw a buzzard sailing up the centre 
of the valley, baited by half-a-dozen carrion crows. He was 
perhaps about one hundred and fifty yards from me, and rather 
below the level of the eye, so I had a very good view of all the upper 
surface. The upper tail-coverts and the proximal half of the tail 
were white, the distal half brown. I have no doubt it was a 
rougblegged buzzard. The flight was slow, but very easy and 
graceful. 
Peregrine.—On the same day, and in the same locality, I saw a 
peregrine. 
The month has been exceedingly tempestuous, with prevailing 
winds from N., N.E., and E. and S.E. The rainfall on the 19th 
was 1°15 inch; for the month up to the 28rd, 3°47 inches. Much 
rain and high winds so early in the season are generally indicative 
of a mild open winter. 
JoHN CoRDEAUX. 
Great Cotes, Ulceby, Lincolnshire, 
November 6, 1875. 
Erratum.—In my notes in the ‘ Zoologist’ for November, page 4670, seventeenth 
line, for these birds read then birds.—J. C. 
