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round about a rocky cliff-face among the pines near Hohfluh 

 for a long time, until it settled on a pine. For full five minutes 

 it circled without a single wing-flap. A rather dark bird, with 

 the light pattern on the under side of the wings very much 

 marked. 



Accipiter nisuSy Sparrowhawk.— One seen at Golderen; another 

 on the Engstlen Alp was seen twice, on one occasion as it was 

 mobbed by Missel Thrushes when flying over the lake ; also at 

 Stansstad. 



Falco tinnunculus, Kestrel. — A pair feeding their chattering 

 young on rocky cliffs at Meiringen. Seen twice half way up west 

 side of the Joch Pass, and about the precipitous sides of the 

 valley at Stansstad. 



Columba palumbus, Ring Dove. — A pair at Meiringen. 



Turtur communis f Turtle Dove. — A pair seen near Langnau. 

 There is a specimen in the Bern Museum from the same locality. 



Perdix cinerea, Partridge. — One seen between Bern and 

 Bienne. 



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Threatened spoliation of the New Forest. — Naturalists will be 

 concerned to hear of the proposed curtailment of their happy hunting 

 grounds in the New Forest, and the destruction of about 800 acres there 

 by the contemplated formation by the Government of a military rifle range 

 and permanent camp. As this proposed enclosure, under the Ranges Act 

 of 1891, is in direct contravention of the New Forest Act of 1877, we are 

 not surprised to hear that there is considerable opposition to it. A new 

 Bill has been introduced (the New Forest Bill, 1892) by way of limitation 

 to the powers proposed to be exercised by the War Department, and we 

 trust it may have the desired effect. Petitions are being signed in opposition 

 to the scheme of encroachment and spoliation, and we are indebted to 

 Mr. Herbert Goss, whose name is well known to entomologists, for the 

 following statement of facts, which we feel sure will be perused with 

 interest : — 



"In connection with the petitions in favour of the New Forest Bill, 

 1892, to which the signatures of persons interested in the New Forest are 

 being obtained, I am frequently asked, ' What is the necessity for the Bill, 

 and what is its object?' The facts of the case may be shortly stated as 

 follows: — The 'Woods and Wastes ' of the Forest comprise about 63,000 

 acres of land, the whole of which were prior to 1698 open and unenclosed ; 

 ZOOLOGIST. — FEB. 1892. G 



