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Little Owl (p. 137). — Mr. Eodd mentions one obtained near Helston in 

 Cornw;ill many years ago. 



[Scops Owl ((SVoyw rjiu (Scopoli)). — A single example of this tinj' eared 

 Uwl was recorded by Mr. W. Thompson as having been killed many 

 years ago at Euckland Kipers in Dorsetshire (Mansel-Pleydell, B. of 

 Dorset, p. 1 5). Two are also included among very rare stragglers 

 to Cornwall : " one, captured at Scilly, in April 1847, has been figured 

 by Mr. Gould in his beautiful folio work ' The Birds of Great Britain.' '' 

 Mr. Bodd also mentions another from Trevethoe, near Hayle, obtained 

 in January 1871.] 



Montagu's Harrier (p. 143). — The Eev. W. "Willimotfc has informed 

 us that during the time he resided in Cornwall he had several nests 

 of this Harrier brought to hira from the Goonhilly Downs, where the 

 birds were not rare. Mr. Henry Nicholls received an adult male 

 from Goodrington, which had a slow-worm in its crop. In addition 

 to the numerous Devonshire specimens of Montagu's Harrier which 

 we have recorded, we may mention a pair of adults in Mr. Elliot's 

 fine collection. 



Buzzard (p. 145). — " Satisfactory evidence of the existence of Buteo 

 vuJcjaris in the Pleistocene of Devonshire is afforded by three speci- 

 mens in the British Museum from Brixham cave, near Torquay. 

 One of these specimens is an imperfect sacrum and pelvis, which 

 exhibits the sudden deflection of the hinder part of the ilia so 

 characteristic of the Accipitres." (Mr. B. Lydekker, ' Ibis,' 1891, 

 p. 3S7.) 



■White-tailed Eagle (p. 150). — Mr. J. C. Williams, of Caerhays Castle, 

 St. Austell, saw an Eagle at the end of December 1891, which 

 several times approached within twenty yards of him. From his 

 familiarity with the bird in Scotland, he believed that he recognized 

 it to be a Golden Eagle, but it was more probably a sjiecimcn of the 

 "\^'hite-t;liled Eagle. For information of this interesting occurrence 

 we arc indebted to the llcv. W, AVillimott. 



Mr. 0. Grcig has informed us that he saw two Eagles near Mor- 

 wenstowe, in N. Cornwall, not long since. 



Kite (p. 155). — A male in fine plumage was shot by the keeper at 

 Clowancc, near Camborne, in Cornwall, the scat of the llcv. St. 

 Aubyn St. Aubyn, in the spring of 1882. This bird had been seen at 

 several places in the neighbourhood previously. (T. Cornish, Zool. 

 1882, p. lUU.) 



Honey-Buzzard (p. 157). — ^Fr. !^^ansol-Pleydell states that this bird 

 gO(> hy tin' name of the "Capped Bnzzard " in Dorsetshire, where 

 it is an occasional smnmer migrant. ^\r. G. B. Corbin, of JUngwood, 

 described a fine female whicli had been killed early in Juno 1887 at 

 AViniborne (Zool. ISsy, p. ;{,")()) that had its feet covered with cow- 

 diing in whicli it had evidently been scratching for grulis. In its 

 gizzard were the remains of Cockchafers, Earwigs, and of the larva3 

 of the common " Gamma'' moth. 



