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informed me that an Osprey was shot on Fritton Lake during the second 
week in September. A Jack Snipe was shot by Mr. L. Peto, on September 
25th near here, and I shot one myself on the marshes near St. Olave's 
Station, on September 26th, a somewhat early date for their appearance. 
On October 17th, while Snipe shooting on the “rands” near St. Olave’s 
Station, my retriever caught a Spotted Crake, and brought it to me alive- 
It was a good specimen, a hen bird, and remarkably fat. I flushed two 
others on the same ground the same day. I flushed a Short-eared Owl out 
of some long grass while snipe-shooting in the marshes near St. Olave’s 
Station, October 27th. I observed a Buzzard, apparently the Common 
Buzzard, in the woods surrounding the Fritton Lake, daily from about 
August 4th to the 16th, after which it took its departure. About May 29th, 
Mr. Bunn, birdstuffer, Lowestoft, received for preservation a female Sand 
Grouse that was picked up dead on the shore near the town; the ovaries 
were not at all developed. On May 30th, Mr. Sheals, birdstuffer, Belfast, 
received one that was killed at Killough, Co. Down. On May 31st, Mr. 
James Sutton wrote me that two Sand Grouse, also females, killed by the 
telegraph wires, were in the hands of the Sub-curator at Durham. A 
beautiful specimen of another hen bird that was shot at Blundeston, near 
Lowestoft, is now in my possession. A nest of the Shieldrake, containing 
fresh eggs, was taken by a friend of mine on the sandhills near Burnham, 
Somersetshire, August 23rd, which seems to be an unusually late date at 
which to find fresh eggs. A Snow Bunting was killed at Cromer on 
October 29th. In a letter received by me from Mr. W. E. Baker, dated 
Tilney, All Saint’s, Norfolk, October 29th, 1888, he says :—* I think there 
must have been an unusual number of Hawfinches this year with us, as I 
found six nests containing eggs and young in oneday. The Sand Grouse 
have not yet left Norfolk, as I saw a fine pair at one of our local bird- 
stuffers last week, in full plumage and in splendid condition, as also a Ring 
Ouzel.”—E. A. Butter, Lieut.-Col. (Herringfleet Hall, near Lowestoft). 
Kestrel’s Nest on a Wheat-stack.— A pair of Kestrels have layed 
in a wheat-stack this year as they did last year, and on the same farm, s0 
probably they are the same birds. Two eggs were found, while the stack (one 
of four) was being thrashed, about the beginning of May. The stacks were 
by the road-side, about 800 yards from the farm buildings. I am glad to 
say that the Kestrels on this farm are not molested, except by such an 
accident as thrashing the stacks, in which they seem so fond of laying 
their eggs. About 400 rats and six weasels were killed in these four stacks, 
and it seems wonderful, therefore, that the hawks’ eggs were not eaten by 
them.—GrorcE EK. Lopes (5, Verulam Buildings, Gray’s Inn). 
Strange Capture of a Golden Eagle.—During the last week of April, 
as Mr. Alexander Shaw, farmer, Oldtown, Stratherrick, on the estate of 
