WAYSIDE NOTES. 11 
On June 6th we got to Bodmin, and on the 7th were 
driving over Bodmin Moor. Here we proceeded in line over 
the moor on both sides of the road, especially on the look 
out for Purres and their eggs or young, as Mr. Rodd says 
they breed on this moor. We had lunch at Trebortha Hall, 
where I renewed my acquaintance with the late Mr. Rodd’s 
collection, now very nicely arranged by his nephew round the 
dining-room. The birds are all in beautiful order, nicely cased 
and arranged; and Mr. Rodd has his own and his late uncle’s 
notes as to the locality in which each was obtained. He kindly 
took us for a walk about his grounds, where we saw a good many 
Water Ouzel about the beautiful stream that runs through the 
grounds. We could not stay very long there, however, as we 
had to get on to Launceston the same night. On the drive 
from Launceston to Tavistock, which is very pretty, but 
hilly, across the Tamar and by Lidford Falls, we saw no birds 
worth noting. 
On June 10th, on the way from Launceston, over Dartmoor 
to Moreton Hamstead, one or two Water Ouzels and Summer 
Snipe appeared on the stream at Two Bridges, and a few 
Peewits on the moor. Mr. Pollard, the landlord at the hotel at 
Moreton Hamstead, had a fine case of three Common Buzzards, 
all shot in the neighbourhood. He had also another, shot by 
himself close to the town, which was dark on the back and very 
white on the breast and under parts, and which accordingly he 
had put down as a distinct species, but (as I told him) I could 
make nothing of it but a Common Buzzard. He also had a 
Hoopoe, killed somewhere near Moreton. From that place to 
Exeter, and from Exeter home we did not see anything worth 
notice. The circumstance which most surprised me in the 
whole drive was the almost total absence of Wheatears; we did 
not see half a dozen, though in many places we passed I had 
on other occasions seen them in considerable numbers. It 
was pleasant to find that there was still at least one pair of 
Peregrines breeding in the West. 
