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  THE 
  ZOOLOGIST. 
  

  

  NOTES 
  AND 
  QUERIES. 
  

  

  AVES. 
  

  

  Time 
  of 
  Song 
  in 
  Cirl-Bunting. 
  — 
  In 
  reading 
  a 
  note 
  on 
  the 
  autumn 
  

   songs 
  of 
  the 
  Cirl-Bunting 
  and 
  Dipper 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Swainson 
  [ante, 
  p. 
  73), 
  I 
  

   thought 
  the 
  dates 
  on 
  which 
  I 
  heard 
  the 
  Cirl-Bunting 
  singing 
  in 
  1902 
  

   might 
  perhaps 
  be 
  of 
  interest. 
  The 
  songs 
  occurred 
  at 
  Aberystwyth, 
  

   with 
  the 
  exception 
  of 
  that 
  heard 
  on 
  Aug. 
  4th, 
  which 
  was 
  in 
  Dorset- 
  

   shire. 
  Dates: 
  — 
  April 
  30th, 
  June 
  10th, 
  July 
  5th, 
  July 
  10th 
  (near 
  New 
  

   Quay, 
  Cardigan), 
  Aug. 
  4th 
  (Dorset), 
  Nov. 
  2nd, 
  Nov. 
  5th, 
  Dec. 
  12th. 
  — 
  

   K. 
  M. 
  Angus 
  (2, 
  Park 
  Street, 
  Lapwing 
  Lane, 
  Didsbury, 
  Manchester). 
  

  

  Two 
  Rook's 
  Eggs 
  and 
  one 
  Moorhen's 
  Egg 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  Nest. 
  — 
  On 
  

   Easter 
  Monday 
  (April 
  4th), 
  in 
  company 
  with 
  Mr. 
  G. 
  V. 
  Clarke 
  and 
  

   Mr. 
  C. 
  B. 
  Ticehurst, 
  I 
  again 
  (by 
  kind 
  permission 
  of 
  the 
  owner, 
  Major 
  

   Sir 
  Archibald 
  Lamb) 
  visited 
  the 
  fine 
  rookery 
  at 
  Beauport, 
  near 
  Battle, 
  

   Sussex. 
  This 
  rookery 
  is 
  remarkable 
  for 
  the 
  fact 
  that 
  seven 
  or 
  eight 
  

   pairs 
  of 
  Books 
  have 
  for 
  some 
  years 
  past 
  built 
  their 
  nests 
  in 
  the 
  

   Portugal 
  laurels 
  under 
  the 
  high 
  trees 
  in 
  the 
  rookery. 
  Close 
  by 
  is 
  

   a 
  small 
  pool 
  of 
  water, 
  formerly 
  surrounded 
  by 
  reeds 
  and 
  brambles, 
  

   and 
  in 
  this 
  snug 
  retreat 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  Moorhens 
  were 
  accustomed 
  to 
  

   annually 
  nest 
  and 
  rear 
  their 
  young. 
  Some 
  three 
  or 
  four 
  years 
  ago 
  the 
  

   reeds 
  and 
  brambles 
  were 
  all 
  cleared 
  away, 
  and 
  since 
  that 
  time 
  the 
  

   Moorhen 
  has 
  always 
  deposited 
  her 
  eggs 
  in 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  low-placed 
  

   Books' 
  nests, 
  taking 
  possession 
  of 
  the 
  nest 
  as 
  soon 
  as 
  it 
  was 
  finished, 
  

   the 
  Books, 
  strange 
  to 
  say, 
  not 
  in 
  any 
  way 
  resenting 
  the 
  intrusion 
  

   (cf. 
  ' 
  Zoologist,' 
  1902, 
  p. 
  279). 
  This 
  year 
  the 
  Books 
  for 
  some 
  reason 
  

   or 
  other 
  have 
  destroyed 
  all 
  the 
  old 
  nests 
  in 
  the 
  Portugal 
  laurels 
  

   with 
  the 
  exception 
  of 
  two, 
  which 
  were 
  occupied 
  last 
  year, 
  and 
  are 
  

   placed 
  on 
  the 
  same 
  branch, 
  about 
  18 
  ft. 
  from 
  the 
  ground, 
  one 
  close 
  

   above 
  the 
  other, 
  at 
  the 
  top 
  of 
  a 
  large 
  Portugal 
  laurel. 
  Mr. 
  G. 
  V. 
  

   Clarke 
  went 
  up 
  to 
  these 
  nests, 
  and 
  found 
  that 
  the 
  lower 
  one 
  contained 
  

   six 
  Moorhen's 
  eggs, 
  and 
  the 
  upper 
  nest 
  had 
  in 
  it 
  two 
  Rook's 
  eggs 
  

   and 
  one 
  Moorhen's 
  egg. 
  — 
  Thomas 
  Parkin 
  (Fairteat, 
  High 
  Wickham, 
  

   Hastings). 
  

  

  Honey-Buzzard 
  (Pernis 
  apivorus). 
  — 
  One 
  morning 
  about 
  the 
  middle 
  

   of 
  June 
  last, 
  I 
  saw 
  a 
  gipsy 
  woman 
  in 
  the 
  street 
  with 
  a 
  large 
  brown 
  bird 
  

  

  