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in Devon. " Some further particulars are given by Messrs. 

 D' Urban and Murray Mathew in their recently published work 

 on the * Birds of Devon,' 1892, p. 50, where it is stated that some 

 of the late Mr. Prideaux's birds are deposited in the Town Hall 

 at Kingsbridge. 



Cornwall. — An adult male was caught in a boat off Scilly, 

 September, 1839 (in the text of the work, 1849 ; but from the 

 ' Annual Summaries,' p. 191, it appears that the former is the 

 correct date). In collection of late Mr. E. H. Eodd ; and now in 

 that of Mr. F. E. Eodd (< Birds of Cornwall,' p. 25). " Several 

 birds of the year were caught on Scilly Islands in the autumn of 

 1849. Supposed from their condition and plumage that they 

 might have been bred somewhere in Great Britain (' Birds of 

 Cornwall,' p. 25). 



Summary. — The records here collected show that (even in- 

 cluding the doubtful occurrences) not more than about thirty-five 

 or forty examples of the Woodchat are known to have been 

 killed in Great Britain. These have been obtained in various 

 English counties ranging from Northumberland to Cornwall 

 (Scilly), but chiefly in those of the eastern and southern coasts. 

 In addition, the Woodchat has been recorded as having been seen 

 on ten or a dozen other occasions. It has been recorded as 

 breeding at least twice in the Isle of Wight, and other nests and 

 eggs are supposed to have been taken in England as above 

 mentioned. 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



MAMMALIA. 



On the Change of Colour in the Fallow Deer as observed in the 

 New Forest. — When recently reading Mr. F. E. Beddard's interesting 

 work on 'Animal Coloration,' I came across the statement that, with the 

 exception of the Manchurian and Japanese deer, there is in the summer and 

 winter dress of the deer species, "no alternation between a spotted and an 

 unspotted condition." This, and other statements that have from time to 

 time come under my notice, when the common English Fallow-deer has 

 been the subject of discussion, lead me to think that the change of coat that 

 takes place in this species when, as in the New Forest, in a perfectly wild 

 condition, has escaped the notice of naturalists, and that a description of 



