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subsequently acquired by Mr. Gurney, with whom I put Dr. 

 R. Brehm in communication, and are the specimens now in the 

 Norwich Museum. I believe this to be the first, if not the only, 

 authenticated instance of the occurrence of Aquila navioides in 

 Europe. 



I am, Sir, yours obediently, 



P. L. SCLATER. 



Sir, — As you express a doubt, in your editorial note to Mr. 

 A. G. Morels paper on the " Distribution of Birds'" (Ibis, 1865, 

 p. 9), whether the Osprey [Pandion haliceetus) has bred in Scot- 

 land for more than ten years, 1 am happy to be able to inform 

 you that this interesting species still breeds regularly every sea- 

 son at a locality in Inverness-shire, which, for prudence sake, I 

 forbear to name. 



Lord Hill informs me that he has had the young birds sent to 

 him from that quarter for several years, but that finding it is 

 quite impossible to rear them, he has for the last season or two 

 requested that they might be left undisturbed. 



I remain, &c., 



John Rocke. 

 Clungunford House, Shropshire, 

 June 10th, 1855. 



Priory Hill, St. Neot's, Huntingdonshire, 

 June 21st, 1865. 

 SiR,3— I have this season received, or myself taken, many 

 Cuckoo's eggs, the particulars of which confirm the remarks I 

 made in the last Number of the ' Ibis.' One, I think, deserves 

 notice. The nest of a Pied Wagtail [Motacilla yarrelli) was 

 placed on a pollard-willow over the Ouse ; and when looked into 

 at a quarter before six o'clock on the morning of May 1st, it 

 contained two Wagtail's eggs. By a quarter before six o'clock 

 the same evening a Cuckoo's egg had been added. This was 

 taken out by the finder, and the next morning early the Wag- 

 tail laid a third egg, after which the nest was brought to me. 



article upon Eagles, in the ' Bericht iiber die XIII. Versammlung der 

 Deutschen Ornithologen-Gesellschaft zu Stuttgart ' (pp. 55-62). 



