3806 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
Snow Bunting breeding in Scotland.— The nesting of the Snow 
Bunting in Scotland is now no longer doubtful, the young having been 
taken at the nest and the old birds seen within two yards of the observers. 
Notice will have been given of this at a meeting of the Inverness Field 
Club by the time this is printed, and a full account of this interesting 
discovery, as well as a history of the Snow Bunting in Scotland, will appear 
in a larger work, now in a forward condition of preparation, on the Fauna 
of Scotland. Materials for this have long been accumulating in our 
hands.—J. A. Harvir Brown (Dunipace, Larbert). 
The Peregrine on the Kentish Coast.—A few weeks ago, while 
watching the Gulls at Dover, I saw a pair of Peregrine Falcons, and was _ 
informed by one of the coastguards that they nest there every year, and 
commit great havoc among the young Gulls. I was lying on the top of 
the cliff watching the Gulls below, when I suddenly became aware of a 
commotion among the birds some distance from me, and on looking in that 
direction I saw a male Peregrine making repeated stoops at the young 
Gulls, while the old ones had joined together to drive him away, and in 
this, after some little time, they succeeded, one fine old Gull following the 
Peregrine for some distance. I afterwards saw the Falcon making stoops 
at the Swifts, of which numbers breed in the cliffs; but they were too 
sharp to be caught. In Yorkshire I know of several regular nesting- 
places of the Peregrine, but was not aware that it nested annually near 
Dover.—Ritey Fortune (Alston House, Harrogate). 
Unusual Site for a Sand Martin’s Nest.— On the 20th May I 
observed a pair of Sand Martins flying up and down in front of my house. 
Never having seen a Sand Martin in this town before—the nearest colony 
being distant about two miles—I supposed they had come in to search for 
food, the weather being cold and wet at the time. I watched them day by 
day, expecting each day would be the last of their visit, until the 30th May, 
when, to my surprise, I saw one of the birds gathering material for a nest, 
and after a short time I saw the hole they had selected. Standing near 
the outskirts of the town is a stone wall about ten feet high, backed up 
with earth, in front of which passes a road ; along this road is a considerable 
amount of traffic; any one passing on the footpath would literally brush 
against the wall. A row of detached houses stands between the wall and 
the open country. In this wall, about four feet from the ground, the nest 
was placed, at a distance of about two feet from the entrance. In a very 
short time the little boys discovered the nest. Owing to their interference 
the birds appear to have left the town.—Wixt1am J. Horn (Uppingham). 
Edible Birds’ Nests.—Permit me to give the result of some observa- 
tions I made on this subject in the Solomon Islands. It will be remem- 
bered that it was the association of these uests with a so-called * fungoid 
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