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water. It concluded a very interesting performance by first 
hopping on to an overhanging bough; then, having turned him- 
self round to face me, it began its beautiful song. 
March 9th.—‘* An albino Linnet caught at Swymbridge”’ 
(‘North Devon Herald’). ; 
April 1st.—The Ravens are nesting at Baggy Point. In the 
Rabbits’ holes in the cliffs near Vention cottages several pairs of 
Stock-Pigeons are nesting. 
May 8th.— A Tree-Creeper’s nest behind the bark of a 
Mazzard tree. Nothing can be more fascinating than to watch 
the home affairs of these delicately built and confiding birds. 
The male feeds the female as she sits. 
14th.—Dipper’s nest on River Yeo, placed on flat top of a 
three-cornered buttress of a bridge over a waterfall. Threeeggs 
in it. A couple of feet away a Grey Wagtail was feeding her 
young in a nest among the ivy of the bridge. Both species are 
very common breeding birds in North Devon. 
18th.—In a field, among coarse sunburnt grass surrounding 
the Duck-ponds at the mouth of the Taw, was a Common Duck 
sitting on eight eggs. Nearer the water was another nest, which 
had evidently been marauded, as some eggs were broken, and 
others lying outside the nest. In the same field, in the middle 
of a clump of coarse grass, was a Teal’s nest. The eges were 
hidden by a screen of dry grass, for the old bird was not sitting. 
There were eight eggs. The Teal has not been recorded as a 
North Devon breeder hitherto, although it breeds on Slapton 
Ley, in South Devon. I noticed a Teal on the Wrafton Duck- 
ponds, which evidently had a nest not far away. The game- 
keeper (J. Petherick) told me that he had seen the female Teal 
on this nest, and had flushed her from it several times. A Red- 
start on Braunton Burrows. 
20th.—I watched a Peregrine Falcon sitting on three eggs 
for a greater part of the afternoon. The eyrie was situated in a 
cleft of rock half-way up an almost sheer piece of cliff. She 
could not be got to move, although we threw stones against the 
rock, hallooed, and, generally speaking, made a pretty frantic 
row amid the stillness of the Falcon’s sanctuary. Ona previous 
occasion she was found to be off the eggs; then, after screaming 
and flying in and out of the bay, she at length pitched on 
