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Correspondence.



Post of a Waxwing having been shot at Hunmanby, about twenty miles from

Malton, and I greatly fear it would be the bird that I saw.


Margery L’Estrange Malone.



PLUMED GROUND DOVE.


Sir, —I am not a member* of the Avicultural Society but read the monthly

magazine and was interested to read Mr. Blaggs notes on the Plumed Ground

Dove. I have a pair which laid several times last summer and sat their full

time, the last pair of eggs being left when the young birds were partly hatched,

two other lots of eggs were fertile but failed to hatch. In the case of my pair

there was certainly no change of any sort in the plumage. The birds were in an

outdoor open-air aviary and in perfect condition. They were very wild and shy

at first and deserted the first two pairs of eggs, after sitting a few days, but

afterwards settled down and were quite comparatively tame. You might like to

have my experience with these doves, so I thought I would write you a few lines.


Herbert Bright.



SIR.—I thought the following would be interesting to the readers of the

Avicultural Magazine.


A Sand Martin was flying up and down the river Thames, close to Tile-

hurst, which is two miles from Reading. It was seen there about ten days

before Christmas. I have never heard of or seen a Sand Martin at such a time

of the year, although I have seen House Martins as late as the third week in

November.


A fortnight ago a most unusual thing occurred. A large brood of Part¬

ridges hatched off at Silchester Manor Farm and were all doing well.


P. F. M. GALLOWAY.



[ * Will not Mr. Bright become a member.—ED.]



