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with an upper stratum quite two inches thick composed almost entirely of 

 the wings of Cicadas, with a few butterfly and moth wings interspersed 

 therein. To my disappointment, I found neither eggs nor nestlings. 

 During the rifling of their nest both the male and female Falcons sat on a 

 neighbouring tree, but made no demonstration of any kind. Further south, 

 in Tenasserim, I found the eggs of this Falcon in a precisely similar 

 situation early in April, as well as I can remember. That nest was com- 

 posed almost entirely of butterfly wings. — C. T. Bingham, 



AMPHIBIA. 



Palmate Newt (Molge palmata) in Carnarvonshire.— On May 12th 

 I found a small pond at the back of the Little Orme's Head teeming with 

 Palmate Newts. There were also numbers of Great Crested Newts, but no 

 Common Newts, nor could I find any of the latter elsewhere in the district. 

 The male Palmate Newts were all showing in perfection the webbed feet 

 and tail-filament characteristic of the breeding season. The females were 

 still full of spawn, and some that I brought away have laid eggs since in 

 the aquarium. — H. E. Forrest (Shrewsbury). 



PISCES. 



File Fish off Brighton. — Thinking it may interest the readers of 

 * The Zoologist,' I am sending (in place of a description) a rough sketch of 



a File Fish (Balistes capriscus), taken about five miles off Brighton on the 

 10th October, 1900, which has been presented to the Brighton Museum by 



