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her cage attracted by the meat. Only last month she killed a large cat in 
the same way. I could furnish many other anecdotes of her did space 
permit. The mode of hunting by the Golden Kagle is most interesting to 
watch. Generally speaking two of these birds hunt together, a hare being 
the favourite prey. When the hare is started one of them follows it as near 
the ground as possible; the other poises in the air, or as a falconer would 
say “waits on,” and watches intently. If a rock or anything else inter- 
venes, and the bird in pursuit loses sight of the hare, the other at once 
stoops and takes up the running; the first then “waits on,” and so on. 
The hare has little chance of life unless there is a hole in which to hide.— 
Wittram Prxe (Glendarary, Achill Sound, Co. Mayo). 
Nores rrom THE West or Enetanp.—A Rough-legged Buzzard is 
reported to me as having been trapped on Exmoor this winter; it is 
described as having been very light-coloured in its plumage, so may prove 
an adult. At the beginning of November a Green Sandpiper made its 
appearance by a warm drain close to my house, and was to be noticed there 
daily for some six weeks, when it disappeared, and I feared it had been 
shot; however, after a fortnight’s absence it returned, and one day I flushed 
from the same drain a smaller Sandpiper, which seemed tamer than the 
other bird, rising with a feeble “ weet,” and flying over the field at a short 
distance from me. Iam pretty positive that it was a Wood Sandpiper. 
About Christmas a Curlew Sandpiper was shot on the moors a little to the 
east of Taunton, and is, I should judge, in almost complete winter dress, in 
which state it is but rarely obtained in this part of the kingdom. It is not 
so gray on the back as the Dunlin in its winter plumage, and still shows 
many of the crescentic markings which characterize the young birds shot in 
September and October; but all the under parts from the bill to the vent 
are pure white, and the upper wing-coverts are very hoary, being dark gray 
spotted with white, not a little resembling the summer plumage of the 
Wood Sandpiper. Whilst on the subject of Sandpipers I may add that last 
summer, when fishing on the moors, I saw a Common Sandpiper rise a few 
feet into the air from off a bank adjoining the stream, and while it rose and 
slowly descended again it warbled a very agreeable little song; a clump of 
furze separated me from the bird and the stream by an interval of a few 
feet, so that the bird did not see me, while I was sufficiently near to see it 
clearly and to catch what was to mea hitherto unknown song. It is on 
record that the Wood Sandpiper also pipes a few pleasing notes.—Murray 
A. Maruew (The Vicarage, Bishop’s Lydeard). 
Rare Birds on tHE Exu.—An adult specimen of the Little Gull (Larus 
minutus), in winter plumage, which had been shot near Woodbury, was 
shown to me in the flesh on the 29th November last. On the 12th January 
two immature specimens were shot on the Exe, below Topsham, by Mr. 
Douglas Hamilton and Mr. Benjamin Cleave, who have kindly presented 
