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an uncommon occurrence to find it nesting in walls, even in the 

 vicinity of moors. The Wheatear here almost always breeds in old 

 walls ; further away in the wilder parts of the district, it frequently 

 makes its nest in a hole in the ground. The Hawfinch, too, in this 

 district, has well defined local nesting habits. The King-Ouzel nests 

 occasionally here in trees ; probably it does so in many other places, 

 but I have never been so fortunate as to discover such nests. I fear 

 Mr. Allan Ellison is mistaken if he supposes that the Twite is generally 

 distributed " where moors, mountains, and exposed heathy places are 

 found" in the British Islands. There are vast tracts of moorland, 

 even in Yorkshire, where it appears to be very scarce or indeed absent 

 altogether. A few years ago I spent my holidays about "Whitby, 

 making Goathland my centre, and passed much of my time on the 

 moors without finding a single nest. I tramped from Goathland to 

 Kobin Hood Bay, which is practically moorland all the way without 

 seeing a single bird ; all the other characteristic moor birds were there, 

 viz., Bing-Ouzel, Curlew, Golden Plover, Titlark, &c. I also spent a 

 few days in Wales a few years ago with Mr. Forrest, H. B. Booth, and 

 Bosse Butterfield, much of the time being passed on the moors, which 

 seemed to be ideal breeding-places for the Twite, but we failed to find 

 its nest, although our mission had been organized chiefly in the hope 

 of doing so. — E. P. Buttekfield (Bank House, Wilsden). 



Greenland Falcon (Falco candicans) in Co. Antrim. — This rare 

 arctic species was obtained above Carrickfergus, on the Knockagh, 

 on Feb. 12th, by Mr. Paul Logan. It was brought to Mr. Sheals, 

 of Corporation Street, Belfast, by Mr. Patterson, where it has been 

 beautifully mounted, and where I had the pleasure of examining it 

 on Feb. 17th. It proved on dissection to be a male, the stomach 

 containing a half-digested Lark. It is in fine white plumage, with 

 black markings. It is set up in the life-like attitude which we know 

 so well from photographs of Peregrines and other birds of prey kept 

 for hawking ; so many taxidermists draw out their specimens when 

 setting up, thus taking away the natural compact form of a bird. 

 There have been in all twenty-nine records of Greenland Falcons in 

 Ireland, only two of which were obtained in Co. Antrim, the west 

 coast being their natural landfall. For further particulars, cf. "Nature 

 Notes," 'Northern Whig,' Feb. 17th ; and for account of the 1905 in- 

 vasion, cf. ' Irish Naturalist ' for that year. — W. H. Workman (Lismore, 

 Windsor, Belfast). 



Colour of Eyes in Fuligulanyroca. — I have read Mr. Bird's remarks 

 [ante, p. 75) on the colour of the irides in the immature white-eyed 



