58 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
about 1853 a man named Hart came from Christchurch and settled in 
Salisbury, and meeting him one day he mentioned the fact of his having — 
shot and also taken the nest of the Great Grey Shrike, upon which Hart 
(a member of the family now well known as birdstuffers and naturalists at 
Christchurch and Bournemouth) asked him if he should know the bird again 
-if he saw it; to which King replied that he should know it from a hundred 
different kinds of birds, and on Hart taking him into his room where his 
collection of birds was kept, King at once pointed out the Grey Shrike as 
the bird he had both taken the nest of and shot. The occurrence of the 
Great Grey Shrike in our more immediate neighbourhood is not uncommon. 
I have a specimen myself that was shot in the Haster week of 1876 at 
Bishopstowe, about seven miles from here; and a pair were trapped last 
winter in our water-meadows at Britford, one of which was kept alive by a 
man in Salisbury for some little time, until the poor creature died, probably 
from starvation. Mr. Norwood also informs me that some years back a 
pair of these birds were shot in Hurstbourne Park, near Whitchurch, by 
one of Lord Portsmouth's keepers named Ford. He killed them during 
the month of May, as they were flying amongst some large bushes, and 
this being late in the year for their appearance amongst us it would seem 
probable that they were about to breed.—Anraur P. Morrgs (Britford 
Vicarage, Salisbury). 
Common AnD Roveu-LecceD Buzzarps In KircuDBRIGHTSHIRE.— 
During the past autumn Buzzards have made great additions to their 
ordinary numbers in the south-west of Scotland. There are, in the county 
of Kireudbright, several spots where, as I know the nests myself, there is 
no doubt that the Common Buzzard breeds every year; but, irrespective of 
these, stragglers seem to have occurred in many parts of the district. Several 
Rough-legged Buzzards have also been trapped and shot during the autumn 
months; and there is, I have good reason to believe, a regular autumnal 
movement of both these species to various parts of Scotland. It remains, 
however, an open question as to where they come from, but they appear to 
move from east to west. ALEXANDER Crark-Kennepy (late Captain Cold- 
stream Guards, Guards’ Club, 8. W.). 
Brent Goose In BeprorpsHire.—An adult male Brent Goose, Bernicla 
brenta, was shot by a man named Bennett at an osier-bed quite close to 
this town, and the birdstuffer here has it for preservation. A man at 
Banbury, the birdstuffer, a most intelligent man, well acquainted with birds, 
assures me that he had one to stuff some nineteen years ago, which was 
killed at Warkworth, in Oxfordshire. It is curious that this species should 
be found so far inland. Since writing the above, hearing I was interested 
in the Brent Goose, a man called to inform me that as he was on the 
embankment near this town, on the first Sunday in December, he saw 
