450 ‘ THE ZOOLOGIST. 
breast is much broader in the specimen before me than in the specimen 
figured, and is scarcely at all interspersed with any other colour. The lore 
is of a slaty blue colour; from the lore under the eye, and as far as the 
orifice of the ears, there is a tinge of chestnut intermixed with brown. The 
feathers, which form a chestnut band below the black bar on the breast, 
are nearly all tipped more or less with dirty white, and are black at the 
base. The flanks and under tail-coverts are dirty white, tinged with light 
chestnut ; the under tail-coverts light chestnut.—G. Perer Moore (Blun- 
deston Lodge, near Lowestoft). 
Sanp Martins Nestina 1x a Srons Watt.—A short time ago I 
wrote to you saying I had found Starlings occupying Sand Martins’ holes 
in a quarry. Since then, in July, I was surprised to find a brood ef young 
Sand Martins in a hole in a stone wall. I watched the old birds for some 
time, as I felt sure there was a nest close by, but did not know where to 
look for it. Soon one of them flew into a dense mass of ivy on a wall, and 
shortly reappeared. Pushing aside the ivy, I found the nest. This is a strange 
case of retaliation on the part of the Martins.—C. M. Prior (Bedford). 
PereGRiInE Fatcons oN THE Sprre oF SaLisBuRY CaTHBDRAL. — 
I am glad to see that the Peregrines have again chosen our noble spire as 
their general roosting-place for the winter. There are almost always a pair 
that frequent it during the autumn and winter months. On one occasion 
I noticed four soaring around the spire at the same time, one of which 
perched upon the summit of the weathercock. On another occasion, when 
I was up at the “ Kight Doors,” which open out on the roof at the top of 
the tower from which the spire springs (some 203 feet from the ground, 
the spire itself being 197 feet more), a fine Falcon pitched on the fretwork 
some thirty or forty feet above my head, and took not the slightest notice 
of my presence or voice. I once picked up a Snipe’s leg there, which had 
evidently been left by them; and the workmen, when they were restoring 
the spire some eleven years ago, used to see them frequently bring Pigeons 
and Partridges there to eat at their leisure. A pair were shot there by the 
workmen in 1866, which afterwards came into my possession; the hen 
bird, a very old one, having at one time evidently been caught in a gin, 
having lost one of its toes, and the bill being much broken. Most people 
in the city know the look of the “ Great Hawks” as they are called. = 
Artaur P. Morres (Britford Vicarage, Salisbury). 
CresteD Lark 1N tHE Iste or Wieur.—In reply to the editorial 
queties (p. 343) as to when, where, and by whom this Lark was shot, and- 
by whom identified, Iam now able to state that it was killed the winter 
before last, in a field on the Priory Farm, St. Helens, by a man named 
Mark Orchard. As to the species, Mr. Careless was aware of it before I 
took it up, inquiring how it had been procured. That a Sky Lark witha 
good crest has been taken for a veritable Crested Lark I can readily 
