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rapidly freshening, and as nobody hereabouts (except steamers) 

 thinks of carrying lights, we shaved in the darkness close past the 

 jib-boom of the ' Eliazer' sloop, one of the vessels which had lain 

 beset in Stor Fjord all the summer, and then were almost into 

 another "jagt" ahead, but managed to let go the anchors and 

 bring the 'Cecilie' up just in time. We landed at 11 p.m., and 

 thus ended our voyage.* 



(To be continued.) 



WAYSIDE NOTES DUEING A WEST-COUNTRY DRIVE. 

 By Cecil Smith, F.Z.S. 



Between the 20th July and the 7th August last we had a 

 pleasant drive from Lydeard to Salisbury, returning by the 

 Dorsetshire coast. Although our chief object was to attend the 

 Grand Western Archery Meeting at Salisbury, we nevertheless 

 kept our eyes open for birds en route, and especially on the drive 

 back by the coast. 



The first two days to Yeovil and Blandford were very wet, and 

 we saw nothing worth noticing either then or on the Sunday, 

 which we spent at Blandford. On the Monday we had another 

 wet drive, mostly over the open down, part of Salisbury Plain, to 

 Salisbury. A good deal of the down is now cultivated, though 

 there are few hedgerows to separate the fields ; we saw little on 

 our way but a few pairs of Peewits, some of which evidently had 

 young or eggs close by, for they were in a great state of per- 

 turbation. The rain, however, prevented much search for the 

 young, which must have hid themselves very cleverly, for there 

 was little for them to hide in except the grass, which was short, 

 and we did not succeed in finding them. On the 24th of July we 

 drove out to Stonehenge, where we were somewhat amused to find 

 that a pair of House Sparrows had taken up their quarters in a 

 crevice between one of the large flat stones on the top and the 

 stones which supported it. They were constantly creeping in at 

 one side and out at the other with food in their mouths, remains 

 of biscuit, pickings of chicken-bones, crumbs of bread, and other 

 things left by pic-nic parties, and not entirely cleared off by the 



* Some further remarks on the Zoology of the voyage are reserved for a 

 future number. 



