THE ZOOLOGIST. 



THIRD SERIES. 



Vol.XVL] JULY, 1892. [No. 187. 



SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES on the BIRDS of OXFORDSHIRE. 



By 0. V. Aplin 

 (Member of the British Ornithologists' Union). 



The following notes have come to hand from various sources, 

 or have been jotted down by me, since my book on the birds of 

 this county was published in 1889, and form a report on Oxford- 

 shire Ornithology down to the end of the year 1890. 



Osprey. — Mr. W. Newton, Jun., informs me that a female 

 bird of this species was shot at North Stoke, and is still preserved. 



Peregrine Falcon. — Mr. Darbey tells me that a Peregrine 

 was killed in Tythrop Park in the early part of January, 1890. 

 On March 15th, 1890, I saw one on the wing in Blackamore 

 Meadow, in this parish. From its size, length of wings and tail, 

 it must have been a female. An eyess falcon was shot at 

 Waterperry about Dec. 26th, 1890, and an adult falcon in Bagley 

 Wood, Berks, shortly afterwards : both these were taken to 

 Mr. Darbey. 



Hobby. — I observed one wheeling about over the Swere Valley, 

 in this parish, on May 11th, 1889. After a short time it soared 

 into the air to a great height over my head, in circles, and then 

 flew in an easterly direction. It was moulting its primaries, 

 my glasses showing a gap in each wing very plainly. An old bird 

 was shot near the Cowley road terminus of the tramway at 

 Oxford, at the end of August or early in September, 1889, and 

 taken to Mr. Darbey, where I afterwards saw it. Mr. J. G. Cornish, 

 writing in ' The Field ' of May 10th, 1890, upon " The Haunts of 



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