236 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



Late Appearance of Bramblings in Sussex. — During the winter, 

 from Jan. 22nd onwards, there was one flock of Bramblings (Fringilla 

 montifringilla) near Tunbridge Wells, but these left about the middle 

 of March, and but for two on March 28th we saw no more until April 

 16th. From that date to the 22nd they were quite abundant ; alto- 

 gether we saw them in four widely separated places during that time, 

 on two of these occasions in considerable numbers, with other Finches. 

 Other winter visitors stayed unusually late in the district — Redwings 

 until April 16th, and Fieldfares until the 23rd (at least). On the 29th 

 I saw a flock of Fieldfares in Surrey. — H. G. Alexander (3, Mayfield 

 Road, Tunbridge Wells). 



Notes on the Cuckoo. — On May 23rd I found, in a rough grass- 

 field near Diss, a Meadow-Pipit's nest containing three eggs of the 

 owner and two Cuckoos' eggs. These eggs, laid by different Cuckoos, 

 are certainly the produce of the same two birds which each deposited 

 an egg in a Meadow-Pipit's nest near the same place last June (cf. Zool. 

 1906, p. 276), and that two hen Cuckoos should have survived the 

 perils of a double migration, returned to the same place, and once 

 again made choice of the same nest in which to place their eggs seems 

 worthy of record. — Julian G. Tuck (Tostock Rectory, Bury St. Ed- 

 munds, Suffolk). 



Rough-legged Buzzard (Archibuteo lagopus) in Cheshire. — On 

 Nov. 5th, 1906, at Knutsford, a gamekeeper shot a Rough-legged 

 Buzzard, which was devouring a snared Rabbit. The bird is in im- 

 mature plumage, having the basal half of the tail brown. — Charles 

 Oldham. 



Osprey near Plymouth, and other Notes. — I have just seen an 

 Osprey (Pandion haliaetus), shot by a gamekeeper at Bickleigh Bridge, 

 which spans the Plym about seven miles from Plymouth. It was shot 

 in September, 1905. The gamekeeper told me the wings measured 

 from tip to tip 66 in. He first fired at it below the bridge as it rose. 

 The bird alighted further up the valley, where it was secured by 

 a second shot. He did not know what kind of bird it was until I 

 identified it. Among the birds of note which have been seen around 

 Plymouth during the present year I may mention a Peregrine Falcon, 

 which remained for several days between Penlee Point and Rhame 

 Head. It was seen on Good Friday, and again on Easter Monday. A 

 few years ago a female Peregrine was trapped near the same spot by 

 the gamekeeper at Mount Edgcumbe. Towards the end of last month 

 (April) I saw an Egyptian Goose on Plymouth Racecourse, but it was 



