3884 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
Ridges, an equally wild country, with the crop a mass of whorts or whortle- 
berries. This was a hen Pheasant, shot in August, mistaken for a Grey 
Hen, and as she fell the berries bled from her mouth like blood, which 
attracted our attention to it. I have counted forty-one acorns from the 
crop of a Pheasant; thirty-nine from a Wood Pigeon. Pheasants also eat 
the “champignon,” as it is called by the country people—a species of 
fungus.—Joun W. G. Spicer (Spye Park, Wilts). 
RED-WINGED SraRLInG IN CornwaLu.—I am informed that early in 
the present month of August a specimen of the Red-winged Starling was 
shot at the Swanpool, near Falmouth, by Mr. Gill, taxidermist, of that town. 
My informant states that the bird had been observed in the neighbourhood 
for nearly a fortnight before it was secured, and that several ineffectual 
attempts were previously made to shoot it. This appears to be the first 
time the occurrence of this species has been noted in Cornwall, although it 
has been met with in several instances in various other counties of England 
aud Scotland. How pleased our lamented friend the late E. H. Rodd would 
have been at this interesting addition to the avifauna of his county !— 
J. E. Harrine. 
THICK-KNEE ATTACKED BY A HrEN.—On the afternoon of August 2nd 
Mr. Callow, of Northrepps, Norfolk, heard a screaming cry in his stack- 
yard, and on going thither found that it proceeded from a Thick-knee which 
was being vigorously attacked and buffetted hy a hen that had a brood of 
chickens in the yard. The Thick-knee allowed Mr. Callow to capture it in 
his hand, after which its wing was clipped and it was placed in a walled-in 
garden, where it seems to be doing well. It appears to be an adult bird, 
and though very thin bears no visible trace of having been wounded. The 
stack-yard where the Thick-knee was caught is in the neighbourhood of a 
large heath, and I think that it may have wandered from thence, and have 
been attacked by the hen under the idea that it was a hawk.—J. H. Gurnuy 
(Northrepps Hall, Norwich). 
Tue Catt or tHe Cuckoo.—In a letter appearing in ‘ Nature’ (vol. 
xxii., p. 76), I stated that “ All the Cuckoos here intone in a minor key 
except one, which alove does not flatten the 3rd of the tonic. The key is 
in all cases precisely D of concert pitch, as proved by a tuning-fork, and the 
first note is F on the fifth line.” This year I find that while the Cuckoos 
here generally intone in D minor, as above, there is one again that intones 
in D major, and two others in C major and C. minor respectively. Some 
that I casually heard in other places in the neighbourhood intoned in D 
minor.—Joun Brruineuam (Millbrook, Tuam)— From ‘ Nature.’ 
ABNoRMAL Koes or Tree Pipit.—On May 30th a man brought me 
a Tree Pipit’s nest containing five eggs no larger than those of a Regulus. 
