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indifferent to my presence. This bird was a female. While I was eating 
my luncheon in the house I saw another bird fly to the window-sill, leave it 
again, and return. ‘This was a male Snow Bunting. On going outside I 
at once saw the birds passing backwards and forwards, and entering a 
crevice underneath the sill of the window. My first impulse was to try to 
get at the nest, but to this, I am now glad to say, the owner objected, 
telling me that the birds had built there regularly for several seasons, and 
that he did not wish them to be disturbed. This brings the breeding range 
very much farther south than has been hitherto ascertained, so far as I can 
gather from the accounts of Gould, Yarrell, and others. — W. OxenDEN 
Hammonp (St Alban’s Court, Wingham, Kent). 
Foop or tak SNow Buntinc.—On December 138th I skinned a pair of 
Snow Buntings that had been procured on the summit of one of the hills, 
in the parish of Balmaghie, in this county, and on examining the contents 
of their stomachs I was surprised to find them filled with Lepidopterous 
caterpillars, twelve being contained in one of the stomachs and fifteen in 
the other. Although these were not “fine specimens” from an entomo- 
logical point of view, I had no difficulty in identifying them as the larve of 
Noctua xanthographa, a common moth in the district. I was under the 
impression that the food of the Suow Bunting was preferably of a vegetable 
nature, and in this locality there could have been no difficulty in getting 
abundance of grass, seeds, &c.; yet the birds seem to have preferred the 
insect food.—NRoserr Service (Maxwelltown, Kirkcudbrightshire). 
Syow Bunrines 1n Co. Krrpare.—On the 13th January at the Curragh 
Camp I noticed several Snow Buntings busily employed in pecking about 
amongst the horse-droppings on the roads in search of hay-seeds and oats. 
I was particularly struck by their tameness, which quite equalled that of the 
House Sparrow, for they were in the most frequented part of the camp; 
even a band, marching along playing, only caused them to fly on to the top 
of the nearest hut, to alight again and pursue their quest for food as soon as 
it had passed. No doubt they have been driven from the Wicklow hills by 
the present severe frost.—E. F. Becurr (The Barracks, Newbridge). 
RaprortaL Migrants NEAR Cromer.—On November 25th I saw a 
large hawk at Hempstead ponds, which I have no doubt was an Osprey. 
This is the seventh Osprey which is known to have occurred at these ponds. 
It has been observed several times by the keeper, and last week was seen to 
catch a fish at the Felbrigge pond. On the 30th the remains of a Hen 
Harrier, picked up in a wood, were brought to me at Northrepps. About 
December 7th a Rough-legged Buzzard was picked up dead at Bodham. 
Another was also shot near Cromer since my last communication, but I could 
not ascertain exactly where. I saw them both in the flesh. It seldom 
