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appear to have left many stragglers behind them, for I observed only 
a few Chaffinches (six or seven birds) in my stackyard, but as yet 
none in the fields. It is only within the past three or four days that 
I observed a few Blackbirds, two or three about this place and a few 
scattered along the roadside hedges. — RopERT WARREN (Moy View, 
Ballina). 
P.S.—I beg to correct a printer’s error in my notes in last month’s 
‘ Zoologist ’ (p. 396), on Great Black-backed Gull breeding near Killala 
on the Inch, a gravelly island. He has printed “ Luck” instead of 
“Inch.” —RoBert WARREN. 
Notes on the Ornithology of Richmond Park, Surrey.—On Good 
Friday afternoon (April 17th) of this year I saw on the larger of the 
Penn Ponds, Richmond Park, a party of four Shovelers (two pairs), 
and had the rare pleasure of watching these beautiful ducks for some 
time. As they kept well out in the middle of the water I was not 
sure of their species till, through the kind loan of a pair of field- 
glasses, I hada splendid view of them. For the most part they were 
merely resting with their heads under wing, only now and then 
rousing up sufficiently to paddle forward a few yards, and then 
resume their nap. On the Sunday they had gone. On Feb. 2nd 
there were some twenty Pochards, nearly all males, on the pond, and 
these had increased, on March Ist, to nearly fifty (all but six of that 
sex). All appeared to have left by the 22nd, but, singularly enough, 
a week later I found a solitary drake swimming about close to the 
plantation ; in a few days this, too, had left, On March 22nd I was 
pleased to see no fewer than three pairs of the Great Crested Grebe 
on the large pond; they were very restless and pugnacious, and 
appeared now at one end and now in a remarkably short time quite 
at the other end, though keeping mostly in couples. On the same 
day there was a Dabchick there, perhaps the same which I had 
previously seen (Feb. 9th). This is the first year I have seen this 
latter species in the Park, though I think it has been seen (a solitary 
bird) by a keeper about this time in previous years. By March 29th 
there was only the one pair of Grebes, showing off to each other, and 
I saw the one once or twice bring up some weed in its diving, and 
carry it to its mate, though I did not observe that this was taken to 
the nest. On Good Friday the birds were busy building, and the | 
nest was quite noticeable. I suppose that it must have been robbed, 
as soon afterwards both birds and nest had disappeared. I am glad 
to see that the Reed-Bunting seems to have established itself now 
about the east end of the ponds, where I had a good view of the male 
