THE ZooLocist—May, 1876. 4899 
had been grown. Although separated into distinct flocks of males 
and females, with the young of the year, the sexes have never been 
very far apart—the former on the high wolds in plantations and 
woodlands, the latter in the maritime plains. 
Blackbird.—January 20. There was a blackbird in full song 
this morning. 
Golden Plover.—January 28. A dull warm night; heard spring 
notes of golden plover. 
Rook.—February 27. Commenced building. 
Tree Sparrow, §c.—March 4. Rode across a great extent of 
country to-day; only observed a few fieldfares, flocks of tree 
sparrows and yellowhammers. 
Peregrine Falcon.—Uave recently examined two shot in the 
neighbourhood of Louth, North Lincolnshire; one a beautiful 
adult male, the other a female in first year’s plumage. ‘The 
peregrine, like the roughlegged buzzard, appears to have been 
exceptionally numerous in the eastern counties during the autumn 
and winter. 
Little Gull.—One, a bird of the year, shot on the coast near 
Tetney in February. 
Yellowhammer.—March 18. In large flocks, frequenting gardens, 
shrubberies, &c. 
Snow Bunting.—April 1. Two on the Humber embankment 
to-day; a flock seen in the same locality on the previous day. 
This is the latest date I have ever known them remain in this 
district. 
JoHN CORDEAUX. 
Great Cotes, Ulceby, Lincolnshire, 
April 5, 1876. 
Notes from West Somerset. 
By the Rev. Murray A. MatuHew, M.A. 
March 23rd. Driving back from Taunton this afternoon I had a 
very near view of an old male merlin, which popped over the 
hedge and then skimmed over the road close to the side of my 
carriage. 
April lst. Going into Taunton this morning I noticed a fawn- 
coloured common sparrow, with a white tail, sitting on a 
hedge. 
