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disturbing every bird within fifty yards. I listened again, early 

 the next morning, without success. 



July 7th. Observed eight Kestrels on the wing at the same 

 time, also many King Doves. Though the Stock Dove breeds on 

 Charnwood Forest, they never seem to come down to the low- 

 lands to feed, and although we have shot numbers of Ring Doves, 

 we have not yet obtained the former species. One morning in 

 the previous autumn some large flocks of doves passed over at a 

 great height. They looked too small for Ringed Doves, and I 

 think they may have been Stock Doves. A young Black-headed 

 Gull shot on the Soar. 



Aug. 23rd. Some flocks of Dunlins and Ringed Plovers 

 passed over at a great height to S.W. These birds were too 

 high up to be seen, but I clearly recognised their notes. This 

 was about 5 a.m. A little later a Redshank passed in the 

 opposite direction. In the evening two adult Herring Gulls. 

 The following day twenty-three of the same species observed. 

 These Gulls have been rather common this year in the Trent 

 valley. 



I am indebted to Mr. T. B. Cartwright, of Loughborough, for 

 some of these notes, and also to Mr. J. B. von Wieldt. The 

 latter gentleman, I regret to say, died 30th July last. His death 

 is a great loss to Leicestershire field-naturalists. 



In May aud June, Quails were heard calling, on a farm on the 

 outskirts of Loughborough. There is little doubt that a pair 

 or more nested there. 



On August 21st a young Cormorant was caught alive in the 

 gardens at Belvoir Castle, and is still in captivity. It takes from 

 eighteen to twenty small fish daily. 



Early in the morning of Sept. 11th Mr. Osborne, of Staple- 

 field, at Irton-sidings picked up a disabled Manx Shearwater. 

 He carried it home and kept it alive for some days, but it refused 

 all food. As there had been no previous gale to blow the bird 

 inland, I think its appearance supports my contention that this 

 species migrates across country. Irton-sidings are exactly on 

 the boundary line between Notts and Derbyshire. 



