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J. E. LITTLEBOY-NOTES ON BIRDS. 
that they visited our county in company. I may state that during 
the past seven years I have had the pleasure of registering seven 
ospreys, and that without an exception they have all been observed 
during the month of September. I feel fully justified in removing 
the name of the osprey from my list of rare and accidental visitors, 
and including it under the head of occasional autumnal migrants. 
Red-Legged Partridge (Caccabis rufa). — Mr. E. Hubert Grundy, 
The Sycamores, Royston, has kindly forwarded an account of the 
nesting of a partridge, which well deserves record. The bird in 
question took possession of a forsaken nest of a wood-pigeon, which 
had been built in the fork of a spruce fir about six feet from the 
ground. It occurred in a small plantation on the slope of a baulk. 
Mr. Grundy visited it on Whit Monday last; there were then 
twelve eggs in the nest and one more was afterwards deposited. 
Rearing that the young birds might meet with some accident if 
hatched in a tree, the eggs were removed and placed under a hen, 
the result being that eleven birds were hatched. 
Green Sandpiper (Helodromas ochropus). — Mr. Marlborough R. 
Pryor writes to me that a pair of green sandpipers remained at 
Weston Manor, Stevenage, during the month of August; and Mr. 
Norman Thrale informs me that he observed a pair of these birds 
near Hertford on the 12th of September last. I may add that Mr. 
Pryor is always most careful in protecting all his feathered visitors 
from molestation or injury of any kind. 
The length of my paper forbids further comment. I will con¬ 
clude by heartily thanking my numerous correspondents for their 
continued assistance. 
