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Alexandra Parakeet (Polytelis alexandrse) from Australia, presented by Mr. 

 W. Pritchard Morgan, M.P. (Parrot House) ; and a Brahminy Kite 

 (Haliastur indus) from India, presented by Mr. A. Kemmis-Betty (Kites' 

 Aviary). 



GLEANINGS. 



In the "Naturalist" for May Mr. B. B. Haworth-Booth records the 

 obtaining of a Little Bustard {Otis tetrax) at Holderness in the last week of 

 December, 1895. 



Mr. Walter Gyngell records, in the "Naturalist's Journal" for May, 

 the finding of a nest of the Redbacked Shrike near Scarborough last year. 



Mr. H. Chipperfield reports in " Nature Notes " for May that a pair of 

 Dabchicks (wild birds) nested last year in one of the small lakes in Clissold 

 Park at Stoke Newington, London. 



In the "Zoologist" for May Mr. J. H. Gurney records the occurrence 

 of a pair of Broad-billed Sandpipers and a pair of Black-winged Stilts in 

 Norfolk during the autumn migration of 1895. 



ROUGH NOTES FROM NORTH WALES. 

 By John A. Bucknill, B.A. 



The few following observations have been compiled partly from note- 

 books kept during several shooting seasons in Wales, and partly from 

 memory, and although there is not much original in them, they may be 

 interesting as descriptive, to some extent, of the bird life to be met with in 

 one of the wildest corners in Carnarvon. 



The district in which they were made may roughly be described as a 

 triangle, of which the three corners are the towns of Capel-Curig, Bettws- 

 y-Coed and Blaenau Festiniog. Notwithstanding the fact that the two 

 former places are quite in the ordinary tourist route, the high moors lying 

 in the centre of the triangle are seldom traversed except by the farmers and 

 sportsmen, whilst the precipitous nature of some of the hills, particularly 

 the Dolwyddelen side of the mountain Moel Siabod, forbids a close 

 approach and harbours unmolested several interesting species of birds. 



A single footpath, which might be used for very rough vehicles, is the 

 only roadway across the moor from Capel-Curig to Dolwyddelen, and a 

 single road (a good one) divides the farms of Hafod Gwenllian and 



