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nest under my balcony last year, and reared their brood. This year a 

 similar pair built within a foot of the same spot, and reared a brood. The 

 male is now (September 5th) beginning to change to the darker plnraage. 

 I think it was the same pair, because they occupied the very twigs they did 

 last year, and approached the nest exactly by the same route, and were even 

 more friendly this year. They remain here throughout the winter. — 

 Michael Foster Ward, Col. (Partenkirchen, Bavaria). 



Green Sandpiper in North Yorkshire. — A party of Green Sandpipers 

 (T. ochropus) passed here in the middle of August last, on their autumnal 

 migration. I saw one at Marfield Pond, a sheet of water of considerable 

 extent much frequented by wild-fowl, on the 15th ; anotlier was seen by the 

 river-side near Clifton Castle on the 19th ; one was shot at a rapid stream on 

 the Yore on the Slst, close to Masham ; and on the 24th a second was shot 

 on the edge of a small horse-pond, about a mile and a-half down the river. 

 1880 was the first year we noticed these birds in this locality, when 

 one was feeding on a sandbank by the river side on August 15th. August 

 16th, 1883, I flushed one from almost exactly the same spot. None were 

 seen during the two years 1881-1882. It is remarkable how nearly the 

 dates of the three appearances of these birds fall upon the same day of 

 the month, they being the I5th, 16th, and 15th respectively. — Thomas 

 Carter (Burton House, Masham). 



Manx Shearwater inland in Shropshire.— On Sept. 12th I received 

 from my brother, the Rev. W. Bond, a fine adult Manx Shearwater, which 

 had been picked up the previous day in a barley field at Aston-on-Clun, 

 Shropshire. It is now in the hands of Mr. Burton, of Wardour Street, for 

 preservation. — F. Bond (Staines). 



Black Game in Pembrokeshire. — By a printer's error I am made to 

 say, in my notes under this heading, with reference to the Blackcock 

 (p. 382), " the many blackcock runs one sees there everywhere attest its 

 presence." This should, of course, be " Blackcock Inns," alluding to the 

 various inns of that name which occur generally throughout the whole of 

 South Wales. — E. Cambridge Phillips (Brecon). 



REPTILE S. 



Lizards on the Rock of Filfola. — The most interesting inhabitant 

 of this limestone rock is the black variety of the common Green Lizard, 

 Podarcis muralis, so common and universal in Malta. It has been remarked 

 that they are tamer than their green relations on the mainland, but this 

 is only natural, as human beings are comparatively unknown to them. 

 Concerning this peculiar colour variety, Prof. Giglioli states that he has 

 invariably found that P. muralis constantly presents dark varieties "on 

 islets adjoining small islands," and quotes as examples islets off Ponza, 



