284 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



1906, a few days after one had been shot at Scilly. The Hoopoe 

 is apparently a regular spring bird of passage in the county, but 

 is seldom recorded in the autumn. In October, 1905, however, 

 it was seen by several observers along the south of the county 

 from Liskeard to Penzance, and one was unfortunately shot at 

 Gerrans, and another at Fowey. In the spring of 1901 a pair 

 nested near St. Columb, and successfully reared four young birds 

 out of a clutch of five eggs. The unsavoury nest was built in a 

 chink between two stones in an old hedge-bank, about two and a 

 half feet from the ground, and could just be reached by putting 

 the arm in up to the elbow. When the young birds emerged 

 from the egg the beaks were not at all conspicuous, though their 

 gape was enormous. The crest-quills were decidedly in evidence 

 when the writer saw them on the fourth day, and on the sixth 

 the quills that covered their pink ungainly bodies clearly showed 

 the russet-brown of the coming plumage, and the well-marked 

 black and white bars of the wing. 



On May 2nd of the present year a male example of Scop's Owl 

 was shot close to Ludgvan, apparently the second that has been 

 obtained on the mainland. Montagu's Harrier has been a scarce 

 summer migrant to the county for over forty years, and there 

 was still one nest at least in the west last spring. The Hen- 

 Harrier nested on the Goonhilly Downs till about 1841 (F. V. 

 Hill). After that date it became a casual of fairly frequent 

 occurrence. In 1903 it again nested in the county, and has 

 done so every year since. The Marsh-Harrier is now a rare 

 casual, but bred on Redmoor Marsh till 1855 (F. R. Rodd). The 

 Rough-legged Buzzard bred in the county down to about 1850 

 (Trathen and Harris), but is now a rare casual. An immature 

 male in fine condition was killed near Carclew on the 16th 

 November, 1905. Eleven examples of the Honey-Buzzard have 

 been recorded for the county, including one at Land's End in the 

 autumn of 1901, one at Carclew in the autumn of 1902, and one 

 at Ladock, near Truro, on the 2J st October, 1904, reported by the 

 Rev. Canon S. R. Flint — all three in immature plumage. An 

 Osprey was seen by the writer, and independently by T. Cornish, 

 at Carbis Bay in September, 1902. A specimen was shot by the 

 gamekeeper at St. Winnow, near Lostwithiel, in March, 1903, 

 and is now in the collection of Sir C. B. Rashleigh. 



