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cloud of Butterflies flew across. I caught over fifty in one after¬ 
noon. I also caught one or two other sorts including a kind of 
skipper and one coloured just like a male Pieris brassicce, but it 
was only about as big as Ccenonympha pamphilus. 
After stopping thus about three weeks we sailed home in 
quarantine. We passed Lobos Island, inhabited only by seals, 
and nothing more was seen until we reached the Cape Verds 
again. There we saw a kind of whale, with the head shaped 
like that of the sperm whale, but I do not know for certain what 
it was and it was a long way off. We saw several porpoises, and 
in the Bay of Biscay we saw three Alauda arvmsis, a welcome 
sight. We reached Southampton again on May ist. 
THAT HAVE PASSED THROUGH THE HANDS OF 
T. WHITE & SON. 
I do not intend to give a full account of the birds in these 
notes but simply what have been met with during our forty-nine 
years experience. I will commence with the eagles, which birds 
have always been rare in Gloucestershire. The golden eagle 
has been killed on White’s Hill, near Painswick, and preserved 
by us ; we have also had two which were killed in Scotland, and 
can be seen at Tibberton Court, Glos. ; one from Wales preserved 
for Mr. Conwell Rogers, and another killed in Wales and pre¬ 
sented to us by Mr. Adams, late of 12, Suffolk Square, Cheltenham. 
Passing to the spotted eagle, we had a fine specimen to preserve 
which was killed at Rendcomb, near Cirencester. 
A very fine gyrfalcon, killed by Mr. La Terrier in Ireland, has 
come to us ; we have also had several ospreys, some from Ireland, 
two killed within three miles of Cheltenham, and one killed by 
Mr. Holmes, near Cleave. The peregrine falcon has been rather 
common in Gloucestershire ; we have had dozens in our time, 
nine birds having been killed within a few miles of each other. 
Some thirty-five years ago kites were very common in this county ; 
we had several that were killed at Rendcomb, by Mr. Ellis, and 
which were feeding on a dead sheep, also two killed on Kite’s 
nest Farm, near White’s Hill, which had come there to nest, they 
were the Black-winged Kites.* A pair of common, or fork-tailed 
kites built their nest in a large tree on Agg Hill and it was taken 
by my father; Mr. Greenaway, who was with him, shot one of 
* Elanus cceruleus ?—This little kite is not admitted to the British list by 
lecent authorities, Perhaps Mr. White can furnish further particulars?—E d. 
