30 REPORTS. 



Falla. The bird was stuffed locally and is in Mr. Falla's possession at 

 the King's Mills, where both Mr. Ramraell and myself saw it on April 8. 

 Cecil Smith in " The Birds of Guernsey," says of the Common Buzzard : 

 " It is, I believe, an autumnal visitant only, as I do not know of a single 

 specimen taken at any other time of the year, nor can I find a record of 

 one." Mr. Siuel tells me that it is only an occasional visitant to Jersey 

 also. 



Gannet.— The Star of Tuesday, October 21st, reported the capture on the 

 beach at the Banques, of " a strange bird," by Mr. Richards, of Delan- 

 eey. I went down to see the stranger on the Thursday and found it to 

 be a young Gannet— a bird of this year evidently, for it still had down 

 on the nape of the neck, and the feathers, unlike the snowy-white 

 plumage of the adult bird we are mostly accustomed to see here, were 

 the dusky brown tipped with white of the young bird. It was a fine 

 specimen of its kind, but had apparently arrived here in a very exhausted 

 condition, for it survived its capture one day only. Specimens of both 

 the young and the adult bird are in the Guille-Alles Museum. 



Moorhen.— The Moorhen of which I have spoken in recent reports as 

 wintering regularly at Sausmarez Manor, St. Martin's, has again made its 

 appearance in the grounds, but did so at a later date than usual. Last 

 year it was seen as early as September 25th, but this autumn not before 

 the 29th of November. 



Basil T. Rowswell, 



Sec, Ornith. Sect. 



Report of the Antiquarian Section for 1013. 



The principal discovery has been that of a cache or 

 hiding-place in the Tower of St. Sampson's Church which 

 took place on June 27th, in the course of some work to the 

 Belfry to carry the old Bell. In the cache was found a 

 collection of instruments probably dating from pre-Reforma- 

 tion times in all ten in number. They consisted of an altar 

 cross on a base, designed also to be used as a proces- 

 sional cross, the lower portion of a thurible or censer, and 

 7 portions of candlesticks and candelabra, making up two 

 odd candlesticks with prickets, the upper portion of a 

 candelabrum in three pieces and 5 other candelabra. They 

 have been shown at the Exhibition in connection with the 

 Church Congress at Southampton and also to the Society of 

 Antiquaries whose report on them is looked forward to with 

 much interest. They were also exhibited to members and 

 their friends at the usual Monthly Meeting on January 28th, 

 1914. They are of a rude description and their interest lies 

 chiefly in their authenticity, and the consensus of opinion 

 points to their being the objects actually in use at the time of 

 the Reformation about 1560. 



Another discovery was that of three neolithic, or perhaps 

 of later date, cists on the Noirmont Hougue, St. Sampson's. 

 They were empty, but a celt was found at the same time in 



