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Greater Spotted Woodpecker.



Wood-pigeon.



Green Woodpecker.



Turtle Dove.



Skylark.



Kingfisher.



Crested Lark.



Nightjar.



Meadow Pipit.



Cuckoo.



Song Thrush.



Quail.



Blackbird.



English Partridge.



Missel Thrush.



Red-Legged Partridge.



Fieldfare.



Pheasant.



Redwing.



Wild Duck.



Starling.



Green Plover.



Jay.



Moorhen.



Magpie.



Heron.



Jackdaw.



Kestrel.



Carrion Crow.



Hen Harrier.



Hooded Crow.



Little Owl.



Rook.



Barn Owl.



November 5. — Saw a pair of Buntings in low-lying country


at T- . They were fairly tame. Cock bird not unlike male


Yellow Bunting. The breast was yellowish-green, with a tinge of

red in the centre, and there were black markings on cheeks and

throat. Would this be the Meadow Bunting? [No; the Meadow

Bunting has the throat white and the breast is bluish-grey—G. R.]



AVICULTURAL NOTES FROM THE P.Z.S.


By E. Hopkinson, D.S.O., M.B.


W hen last at home on leave I had occasion to look through

the volumes of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society, and in

the course of so doing came across, as was to be expected, many

papers and notes of great avicultural interest. These seem worth

recalling.


The reference to which I will give the first place has special

interest for me as it has to do with the Gambia, though perhaps it

may not have the avicultural claims of some of the others. On

p. 97 of the 1835 volume we read of a valuable collection of mammals



