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yet as they are always found alive they can be set at liberty. To 
show how small an aperture a Sparrowhawk can get through, 
I will just mention that I took a young male out of this net, 
and with great difficulty squeezed it into the “boot” of a 
dogeart through a space exactly two inches and a half wide, 
meaning when I got home to pinion it and turn it out in the 
kitchen-garden, but it was out and gone ina second. I should 
not have thought it possible it could have escaped through so 
small an opening; but since one of them forced its way into a 
certain bantam-house at Northrepps I have believed these birds 
can get through anything. 
A short time ago, when fishing on one of our Broads, I was 
witness of a fight between a Marsh Harrier and some Herons. It 
began by the Marsh Harrier mobbing a Heron: at this juncture 
eleven other Herons appeared on the scene, and the Harrier beat 
a retreat, while the Heron it had been hunting did the same, with 
outstretched neck and in a great fright still. I should be curious 
to know if the Herons were really a reinforcement to their brother 
in difficulties. 
I saw a Peregrine Falcon flying over Norwich on September 
15th. An adult Common Buzzard was taken on a post-trap at 
Northrepps on September 27th, and being not much hurt was 
put in a cage and is doing well. 
A migration of Buzzards occurred at Yarmouth the third 
week in September, and most of them were obtained in very 
curious ways. Mr. A. Patterson writes to the ‘ Kastern Daily 
Press,’ under date of September 24th:—“ A striking fatality has 
overtaken many birds of the raptorial genus, evidently migratory 
birds en route for this country. Slipping on to the beach this 
morning I was surprised to find here and there the carcasses of 
several of these; opposite the Aquarium I picked up three dead 
Sparrowhawks. In the crop of one I found the eye, pieces of 
flesh, and a few small feathers of a little bird; the others were 
empty. A Sparrowhawk was picked up exhausted in Row 51; it 
was stunned from striking a lamp in that yard. This was on 
Thursday evening at about nine o'clock. Farther north of the 
Aquarium I observed three Common Buzzards, a Razorbill, and 
a headless mangled carcass of a bird which I concluded to be a 
Marsh Harrier.” Another Buzzard was caught alive in the town 
and taken to Mr. G. Smith on the 24th, who thinks it struck the 
