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came ; but in many instances, especially of the rarer birds, the 

 locality is omitted, and probably most of these were set up from 

 foreign skins (some confessedly so) ; while several which are 

 mentioned in the catalogue as "British" come from places very 

 remote from Salisbury — as for instance, from Stromness and 

 Cornwall. But few birds of interest are marked as local in the 

 catalogue — e.g., two Peregrines, a tiercel, White Parish, 1860, 

 and a falcon, North Tedworth, July, 18(30. At one time a pair or 

 two of Peregrines frequented, and I believe bred on the roof and 

 spire of the Cathedral, but I believe there are none there now* 

 A Hobby, Clarendon, 1856 ; Great Grey Shrike, Devizes, 1863 ; 

 Thick-knee, Shrewton, Oct. 1864; Dotterel, Winterborne Stoke; 

 Sclavonian Grebe, West Harnham, Jan. 1864 ; Fork-tailed Peti'el, 

 East Grimstead, Nov. 1865 ; Kittiwake, Cowesfield. There are 

 several cases of Great Bustards in the museum ; but only one of 

 these is mentioned in the catalogue, and seems to have come from 

 Malton, Yorkshire. There are several other Great Bustards from 

 the neighbourhood of Salisbury, which appear to have escaped 

 mention in the catalogue. This omission, however, does not 

 so much matter, as a label on the case gives the history of the 

 specimens ; amongst them is the Bustard shot by a bird-keeper 

 with a marble at Maddington, near Salisbury, as recorded in 

 'The Zoologist' for 1871 (pp. 2477, 2510). The collection of 

 birds is a large one, but would have been of greater interest if 

 local specimens were more clearly distinguished either in the 

 catalogue or on the labels. 



We left Salisbury for Wareham on July 28th, a pretty drive 

 of about forty miles. Some of the low ground between Wareham 

 and Poole Harbour must be a perfect paradise for the snipe- 

 shooters and wild-fowlers in the winter. We did not, however, 

 see many birds, for a wet afternoon prevented our getting about 

 in the marshy ground. The only objects of interest were a few 

 Herring Gulls, mostly adults, flying over, and five Cormorants. 

 We also saw a pair of Nightjars in some rushy fields by the river; 

 a covey of young Partridges not able to fly ; a good many Keed 

 Buntings amongst the rushes in the wet ditches. At Swanage, 

 where we arrived on July 30th, we had a sail across the bay to 



* Pex-egrines frequented the Cathedral at Salisbury so recently as 1880 

 (Zool. 1882, p. 18). See also Zool. 1877, p. 450, and 1880, p. 300.— Ed. 



