252 THE ZOOLOGIST* 



April 15th, 1889. I heard the note of this bird in the trees near 

 the Banbury Cemetery on April 29th, 1890. A Wryneck was very 

 noisy in the trees in College Close, Bloxham, on May 8th, in the 

 same year, and the next day I watched him through the glasses 

 flitting and creeping about the rugged trunks and branches of 

 some old ash trees. Mr. Lambert saw two near Horsepath on 

 May 1st, 1890. 



Stock Dove. — The Bev. J. E. Kelsall observed a pair, 

 apparently breeding, in the large quadrangle of Baliol College ; 

 they were under the trees in the early morning at various times 

 from March to June, 1884 and 1885 (in litt). The Stock Dove is 

 now (189 J) a common bird in and about Oxford, Magdalen Grove, 

 St. John's and Trinity Gardens, Christ Church Meadow, &c, and 

 is sometimes wonderfully tame. 



Sand Grouse.— 4 The Field' for Oct. 19th, 1889, contains a 

 report of three seen on the 15th on the high sandy railway bank 

 between Beading and Twyford. This part of the line is in 

 Berkshire, but only a short distance over our borders. 



Spotted Crake. — Mr. Lambert bought one in the Oxford 

 Market on Oct. 9th, 1889. A good example of the adult was 

 picked up dead under the telegraph-wires near Banbury on Sept. 

 1st, 1889. A bird of the year was killed at the same place in 

 the middle of the month. 



Water Bail. — A young unmoulted bird, in plumage not 

 often seen — here at least—hit the telegraph-wires, and was picked 

 up near Bloxham, close to the house which used to be the * Green 

 Dragon,' on the Banbury road, on Oct. 7th, 1889. 



Moorhen. — An albino Moorhen, caught on the lake at 

 Sarsden, was sent to the Zoological Gardens about the year 

 1887. In 1889 either one or two others were seen. 



Binged Plover. — Mr. Lambert saw one on Port Meadow on 

 April 22nd, 1890. It was gone the next day. 



Grey Phalarope. — One was caught on the canal just above 

 Banbury on Oct. 8th, 1889. It was swimming on the canal, and 

 was driven to the bank with a pole. Another was shot on the 

 Sorbrook at Wickham Mill, near Bloxham, on the 12th. Both 

 these birds were changing into winter dress. Mr. Darbey had 

 two more in the same month, which were shot on the Isis near 

 Culham. 



Woodcock.— A little bright red bird, with rump and upper 



