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434 6th.—News from Mr. W.W. Fowler that he saw a Hawfinch in Christ Church meadow on the 4th. He remarks, "Not a Chaffinch to be seen or heard."

15th.—Yellow Bunting singing.

17th.—Rooks very noisy at their trees.

26th.—News from Mr. W.C. Darbey that he had received a black Skylark from the neighbourhood of Stanton Harcourt.

March 6th.—Rooks began building.

7th.—A young Song-Thrush, fully fledged, brought to me.

10th.—A Grey Wagtail in the village brook. The body of a Peregrine Falcon (a Fox having bitten off the head), which had died of shot wounds, was picked up near Horton Spinney, Waterperry (H.G.T. in litt.).

16th.—Strong wind; one Rook's nest here blown out.

18th.—Rooks have built four more nests. There are now eight.

19th.—Saw two Chiffchaffs in the warm spot by the brook, where I always look for, and generally find, the first; one was in song.

24th.—Saw three Bramblings settle in a tree in the "Ridgway." This is a late date for them to remain here.

25th.—The Rev. J. Goodwin told me of a pair of Hawfinches seen at South Newington, and a pair of Spotted Woodpeckers in an orchard at Hook Norton, recently.

26th.—News from Mr. Fowler that he heard six Chiffchaffs at Kingham on the 22nd; that the Rev. S.D. Lockwood saw the Wheatear there on the 20th; and that Mr. Foster-Melliar saw it the same day on Shipton downs. News from the last named that young Blackbirds flew on the 16th, and that he heard the Wryneck on the 22nd at North Aston.

April.—I had news this month from Mr. R.W. Calvert of a female Buzzard shot at Ascott-under-Wychwood, while flying away with a wounded Wood-Pigeon on the 30th December, 1881; and of another seen by him there in September, 1893 (in litt.).

2nd.—Went to Kingham to examine the Rookery destroyed by Crows (vide Zool. 1896, p. 144).

3rd.—A flock of about fifty Meadow Pipits in a grass field on Bloxham Grove.

7th.—Examined a Mealy Redpole (Linota linaria) which was