434 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



6th. — News from Mr. W. W. Fowler that he saw a Hawfinch 

 in Christ Church meadow on the 4th. He remarks, ''Not a 

 Chaffinch to be seen or heard." 



15th. — Yellow Bunting singing. 



17th. — Rooks very noisy at their trees. 



26th. — News from Mr. W. C. Darbey that he had received a 

 black Skylark from the neighbourhood of Stanton Harcourt. 



March 6th. — Rooks began building. 



7th. — A young Song-Thrush, fully fledged, brought to me. 



10th. — A Grey Wagtail in the village brook. The body of a 

 Peregrine Falcon (a Fox having bitten off the head), which had 

 died of shot wounds, was picked up near Horton Spinney, Water- 

 perry (H. G. T. in litt.). 



16th. — Strong wind ; one Rook's nest here blown out. 



18th. — Rooks have built four more nests. There are now 

 eight. 



19th. — Saw two Chiffchaffs in the warm spot by the brook, 

 where I always look for, and generally find, the first ; one was 

 in song. 



24th. — Saw three Bramblings settle in a tree in the " Ridg- 

 way." This is a late date for them to remain here. 



25th. — The Rev. J. Goodwin told me of a pair of Hawfinches 

 seen at South Newington, and a pair of Spotted Woodpeckers in 

 an orchard at Hook Norton, recently. 



26th. — News from Mr. Fowler that he heard six Chiffchaffs 

 at Kingliam on the 22nd ; that the Rev. S. D. Lockwood saw the 

 Wheatear there on the 20th ; and that Mr. Foster-Melliar saw it 

 the same day on Shipton downs. News from the last named 

 that young Blackbirds flew on the 16th, and that he heard the 

 Wryneck on the 22nd at North Aston. 



April. — I had news this month from Mr. R. W. Calvert of a 

 female Buzzard shot at Ascott-under-Wychwood, while flying 

 away with a wounded Wood-Pigeon on the 30th December, 1881 ; 

 and of another seen by him there in September, 1893 (in litt.). 



2nd. — Went to Kingham to examine the Rookery destroyed 

 by Crows (vide Zool. 1896, p. 144). 



3rd. — A flock of about fifty Meadow Pipits in a grass field on 

 Bloxham Grove. 



7th. — Examined a Mealy Redpole (Linota linaria) which was 



