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party preparing for migration, though this species remains here 
in large numbers the whole winter. A Nuthatch, a rare bird 
here, was caught in one of the greenhouses at Waddow Hall some 
time about September. The gales from the north-east at the 
end of October brought quite a lot of uncommon birds into the 
neighbourhood. A Storm Petrel was caught in Padiham about 
the 23rd. The ‘Manchester City News’ recorded the capture 
of another at three a.m. on the 29th, and on the evening of the 
same day a third was killed by a cat at Rawtenstall. 
A female Rough-legged Buzzard (recorded in the local papers 
as a Snowy Owl) was shot near the freestone quarries on Wad- 
dington Fell on October 30th; another was shot on Haslingden 
Moor by a Mr. Senior on October 11th, and several more have 
been already noticed in ‘ The Zoologist’ and ‘ Field’ as occurring 
in other parts of Lancashire. 
On November 6th six Swallows were pointed out to me by 
Mr. Naylor flying about the streets of Whalley. It had been 
exceedingly frosty up to the morning of the 4th, when the wind 
changed to the south-west, making it very mild. 
A birdstuffer in Clitheroe had two female Goosanders, hick 
had been shot out of a flock of nine birds on January 22nd, 1881, 
on the Ribble near Henthorn. I saw the man who had killed 
them, and he said the flock had been on the river above a week. 
February 15th. A Short-eared Owl shot on Bashall Moor on 
this date was brought to Mr. Naylor. This is a very favourite 
resort for these birds, and there is no doubt if they were let alone 
they would remain to breed. But that shall never be, say the 
guardians of the Pheasants. 
On February 8th a Great Crested Grebe was shot on the 
Ribble, near Hacking Boat. 
Geese were moving in February. On the 17th a flock of 
about eighty was seen by Altham, very high up, going from east 
to west, and a correspondent on Morecambe Bay informs me he 
saw a few Bean Geese on the 18th, and large flocks on the 19th, 
all going northwards. 
