THE ZooLocist—.J ANUARY, 1876. 4759 
under parts white, as usual. T walked on to Scarborough, and observed a 
few herring gulls and curlews, with a number of rock pipits; I think I also 
saw one little gull. 28rd.—Mr. Brown sent me to-day a splendid mature 
glaucous gull, killed off the coast near Filey; it is in most perfect plumage. 
We had a tremendous gale from the north on the 19th and 20th, which 
probably brought it down to this coast—Julian G. Tuck; Old Vicarage, 
Ibberston, York. 
Hawks in North Devon. — Being in North Devon for a day’s snipe- 
shooting on the 15th of November, I had the fortune to see the following 
birds :—Two peregrine falcons, a common buzzard, two hen harriers, and a 
gray phalarope. Gray phalaropes have been numerous in the south-western 
district this autumn, and instances have come to my knowledge of their 
having been picked up far inland. The peregrines mentioned above were 
amusing themselves when seen by practising swoops at each other with 
much wild screaming. We found our snipe-ground drowned, so that the 
sight of the various birds I have enumerated was some compensation for the 
absence of sport. —Murray A. Mathew; Bishop's Lydeard, Nov. 18, 1875. 
Jugger Falcon.—In reply to the note by Mr.Gurney, jun., in the ‘ Zoologist’ 
for December (8.8. 4721) respecting the buzzard previously referred to 
in the ‘ Zoologist,’ I regret that I did not contradict the assertion there 
made (8S. 8. 597), though so far as “buzzard” was concerned no great 
amount of harm could arise. The bird was sent to the Zoological Society’s 
Gardens, as Mr. Gurney observes, in July, 1868, having been in my pos- 
session since November, i867, and was then pronounced to be a Jugger 
falcon. The man of whom I obtained it had some motive for concealing 
from ine the source from whence it came, and I was therefore told the story 
of its capture related in the ‘ Zoologist’(S.S. 597). Mr. Blyth felt confident 
that there was some mistake, and that it had not reached these shores on 
its own-accord. This led me to make further enquiry, resulting in satisfactory 
information of its having been brought to England in a ship coming from 
the Mediterranean Sea, which information T forwarded to the Zoological 
Society (the only parties knowing it as a Jugger falcon who had been mis- 
informed by me), and which I then considered sufficient contradiction. Mr. 
Gurney knew of this at the time —IVilliam Jeffery ; Ratham, Chichester. 
Osprey in County Waterford, —An osprey was shot on the south coast of 
Tveland, near the village of Dunmore, County Waterford, at the latter end 
of September. It appeared to be following the fish, of which there were 
Ernest Jacob. (‘ Field,’ October 23, 1875.) 
Osprey near Birmingham.—<An osprey was shot on the 25th of October, 
while fishing on Witton Pool, where it had been observed, and repeatedly 
great numbers in the harbour. 
fired at, for some days previously. This specimen, which I have now in 
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process of preservation, is a nearly mature female, measuring two feet in 
length, five feet five inches in expanse of wing, and weighs three pounds 
five ounces and a half—Montagu Browne. (Id., November 6, 1875. 
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