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this it fortunately flew in my direction, passing within twenty yards with 
an undulating jerky flight, much like a wagtail’s; it was apparently a bird 
of the year. I followed it for some distance along a double post and rail 
fence, the shrike keeping about five and twenty yards ahead, flitting from 
post to post—but always in a very dedgy manner—on the off-side of the 
fence, and in each flight, short as they were, dropping near the ground and 
rising suddenly to the post-top: when perched the tail was never still for a 
moment. Mr. Bailey, of Flamborough, has informed me of a Goshawk in 
his possession, an old female, shot by the gamekeeper to the Rev. Lloyd 
Greame, of Sowerby Hall, Bridlington, about the 24th of January. Mr. 
Bailey says the bird measured four feet one inch from tip to tip of wing, 
and was two feet one inch in length: it was seen by the keeper to kill a 
full-grown rabbit and carry it twenty yards or more—JouN CoRDEAUX 
(Great Cotes, Ulceby). 
WHite-TAILeD Eacte 1x HererorpsHire.—On the 18th November, 
1876, I was in Henry Shaw’s shop in Shrewsbury, and found he had just 
commenced skinning a fine specimen of the White-tailed Eagle, which 
had been received that morning from Berrington, near Leominster, the 
beautiful seat of Lord Rodney. The bird had been trapped a day or two 
previously, and, having been caught by only one hind-toe and not in the 
least degree injured, it was a thousand pities it was destroyed. It was a 
female, probably of the second year, as although the plumage was very 
handsome, being a dark mottled brown, there was no indication of the 
“white tail.” This eagle was a very powerfully made bird, full of flesh, 
very muscular, and altogether in high condition. As Berrington is situated 
nearly in the centre of Herefordshire, and as I believe the nearest sea coast 
is about eighty miles distant, it is very difficult to conjecture from what 
locality so remarkable a bird could have wandered.—Joun Rocxs (Clungun- 
ford House, Shropshire). 
PuREGRINE F’atcons NEAR WAREHAM.—A fine pair of Peregrine Falcons 
have been lately trapped near Wareham, one about the 26th February, 
and the other—of unusually light colouring about the head and neck—on 
March 9th or 10th. They are apparently birds of last year, in the 
characteristic plumage of the first year, with longitudinal markings down 
the breast. It has been asserted that certain strains of this falcon, from 
different districts, retain their first plumage for two years sometimes, or 
even more. I should be glad if any of your readers can substantiate 
this.—A. P. Morrzs (Britford Vicarage, Salisbury). 
RouGcH-LEGGED BuzzaRDs NEAR TisBuRY, Witts.—In the last week 
of December four specimens of the Rough-legged Buzzard were trapped 
by the keeper in a large wood at Fonthill, near Tisbury, in this county. 
One, a male bird, was of a light colour; two others were females, and much 
darker. There was a fifth bird of the same species seen about the place 
