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Gelechia larva, but at present we are not acquainted with any which 

 feeds upon it. 



Alsine. Sandwort. 



There are several species of this genus, but none are at present 

 known as the food-plant of a Lepidopterous larva. 



Stellaria media. Common Chickweed. 



This little plant ornaments many a waste piece of ground, more 

 especially during winter, with its mass of green foliage and small 

 white flowers : in our climate it is a true evergreen, and probably on 

 that account has been observed as harbouring very many of the poly- 

 phagous larvae, several of which are enumerated by Speyer. Of the 

 Micro-Lepidopterous larvae the only one hitherto observed in it is 

 Gelechia fraternella, which has sometimes been found concealed in 

 the terminal shoots. 



H. T. Stainton. 



Mountsfield, Lewisham, 

 September, 1854. 



(To be continued). 



Note on the Honey Buzzard in Norfolk. — Another fine specimen of this bird, in 

 nearly adult plumage, was killed at Holkham about the 1 4th of September. A keeper, 

 having observed a large bird rise from a bank near a wasp's nest, set a trap, and, re- 

 turning soon after, secured the prize. — H. Stevenson ; Norwich, October 20, 1854. 



Occurrence of Rare Haivks near Blandford. — A magnificent adult male specimen 

 of the honey buzzard (Falco apivorus) was brought me, on the 21st ultimo, by the 

 gamekeeper of J. Oldham, Esq., of Kisworth, near here, where it was shot by him on 

 the previous day: this is now the fourth occurrence of this bird in the neighbourhood; 

 one killed at Grange, near Wareham, and now in the possession of the Rev. N. Bond, 

 of Grange; one killed also near Wareham, by Mr. T. Dugdale, of that place, and, 

 without much respect for Ornithology, given to his ferrets ; and another killed also, in 

 the same neighbourhood, by Mr. Bennett, of Wareham, and now in the possession of 

 J. H. Calcraft, Esq., of Rempslone, in the Isle of Purbeck : this last was killed in 

 1852; the two former some years previously, but I do not know the exact date. A 

 fine adult female of Montagu's harrier (Falco cineraceus) was also shot by Mr. Old- 

 ham's gamekeeper some time during this last summer, and is now in the possession of 

 the Rev. T. House, of Anderson, near Blandford. Two beautiful specimens of the 

 peregrine falcon have also been killed in this neighbourhood lately : one, here, a very 

 old female, was trapped at the remains of a teal it had just struck down, and is now 

 in my own possession ; and the other, the finest old male I ever saw, was shot on Lord 



