NOTES—ORNITHOLOGY. 
Green Sandpiper psc ptieine da through the Wi oo —A small flock 
of half-a-dozen Green Sandpipe paper’ ochropus) have frequented 
the Great Cotes stream durin the e winter, an am pleased to see three 
are left—the remainder having been killed at odd times by the ‘ must-kill- 
something’ mgd aa en, who never fail to fire at every wild creature they 
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t should be known that these very pretty and ornamental Sandpipers 
are totally worthless for food, and it is much to be regretted that they can- 
not be left in peace to gladden the eyes and ears of the naturalist, I cannot 
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objects which formerly used to a interest to a country walk.—JOHN 
CORDEAUX, Great Cotes House, R.S.O., Lincoln, 12th March 1 ce 
Kingfishers at Huddersfield.—I d intend to imply, b 
personally [ had never seen a rae, rd (dicots aang in ree district until 
the one on the ponds e in Dec r last, that the bird i 
with us as Mr. Ba se seems hie ti is ipod no pers on a S pune 
e been seen, usually single specimens, various of : ponds an 
streams during the past 20 or 30 years. rite writing my note (Nat., Jan 
Heath, the stationmaster at Heale ouse ae ‘little village 
ane ae’ told me herve ome four or five years before 1 came here 
were Kingfishers for some time on the same ponds on which I saw pe 
specimen, nae bees “eventually 9 one of them was shot by a gentleman who 
the visitor at this house.—GrEo. T. PORRITT, 
Crosland “Hall, “Huddersfield, ist March 1808. 
Nesting of the Magpie and Long-eared Owl in Close Proximity 
to one another.—In reference to the paragraph in ‘The Naturalist’ for 
hab ergs last, on the discovery of a nest of the eget : Bebe ats imity 
to that of a a Long-e eared Owl, per haps it may be w while cord 
a somewhat similar case which came under my notice a mgs years es oO. 
his site in a rad plantatio cre ck, where 
I aia . brood of young Long-eared Owls (Aszo ofus) in pagel see —. of 
a Magp e (Pica pi sea) } in one tree, while in an adjoining tree v ew 
nest of the M Magpie, containing eggs, the two nests being perhaps hice 
feet apart. 
In this part of the country I have aievowse 4 noticed that the Magpie, 
when ee in a spruce fir, as was the case in the instance above referred 
to, seems to uite percha about completing the dome over its 
A Sova pre Need ne bea , etc. (often ve heiedes deed), are Renew placed 
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iding the nest from obse ee a and the rilaction nece 
2 large and conspicuous eat | is — in a bare wight wood tree is rae Petia” 
We have no better checks wien the undue increase of the Woodpigeon 
(Columba palumbus) than the Magpie and the Long-eared Owl, both birds 
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remains young half-grown pigeons in the nest of the Owl, and the Magpie 
is most assiduous in her search after their eggs. GEORGE Bo. AM, Berwick- 
éacTreed, 5th March 1898. 
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NOTE—FUNGI. 
Humaria roumegueri near Harrogate: a Fungus New to Britain. 
—I gathered specimens of Humaria roumegueri Sacc. on the 27th Feb. ore 
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