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edition of Yarrell. I have therefore much pleasure in placing upon record, 
as Irish, an indubitable specimen of the Iceland Falcon, which belongs 
to Mr. Henry J. Richards, of Barnagh, Belmullet, and was shot, as 
Mr. Richards informs me, by his brother-in-law, in September, 1879, 
at Tarmoncarra, three miles from the town of Belmullet. The bird was 
sent to Dublin at the time, and set up by Mr. Williams, to whom I feel 
much indebted for the information, and I am still more obliged to Mr. 
Richards, who was kind enough to send his bird for examination, and to 
allow it to remain as a loan in this Museum. It is remarkable that both 
species of Falcon should have occurred in the same neighbourhood, and 
I may add that my friend Capt. Boxer, of the Irish Lights Office, tells me 
that of late years he has heard of more than one large white Falcon 
occurring on the north-west coast of Mayo.—A. G. Morr (Museum of 
Science and Art, Dublin). 
OrnitHotogicaL Notes rrom Satispury.—On the Ist May, 1879, 
I noticed a full-plumaged Pied Flycatcher, a male bird, on my garden-gate. 
It was wonderfully tame, and I could easily have procured it, as it was 
about the Vicarage garden and grounds most of the day. It moved on, 
however, and I saw no more of it. Its black and white plumage is so 
striking that the most unobservant person could scarcely see one without 
noticing it. On February 21st or 22nd, 1881, I saw a fine Great Grey 
Shrike in an orchard close to the house, between here and Salisbury. I was 
attracted first by the peculiar motion of its long tail, and as it was the first 
time I had seen one in its wild state I was much pleased. I watched it for 
some time, and was within a few yards of it, so that I could observe its 
actions perfectly. T tried to obtain this bird, but could not hear of it again 
in the neighbourhood. A nice specimen of each, of the Short-horned Owl 
and Brambling, were picked up dead in the latter part of last winter, after 
the heavy snow, and were brought to me. The Brambling was a male bird 
in good plumage; the Owl was also in good plumage, but very thin. The 
other day a friend of mine shot and brought to me a very peculiarly marked 
Jackdaw. It was, however, in full moult, and so, most unfortunately, unfit 
for preservation. ‘The entire bird would have been of a delicate light silver- 
grey colour, the new quills being of that tint, while the older plumage was 
greyish mouse-colour. I had noticed the bird about the Vicarage during 
the last two years.—A. P. Morres (Britford Vicarage, Salisbury). 
Hasrrs or THE Srorm Perret i Carriviry.—During the recent gale 
(October 14th) a Storm Petrel was picked up alive at Cardiff, and taken to 
Mr. Drane, of Queen Street, who succeeded in keeping it alive for a week, 
when it died. I send you an account of the bird which he wrote for the 
‘Cardiff Western Mail’ of November Ist :—“1 received it in a condition of 
extreme exhaustion, and thought it could not survive the day. It was 
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