not remember at what time of year any of the occurrences he had noted had taken place.  This is to be regretted, as although the bird occurs almost every autumn—­indeed, so frequently as to render mention of further instances of its occurrence at that time of year unnecessary—­its occurrence in the spring is rare, and some of those noted by Mr. MacCulloch might have been at that time of year.  As it is, I only know of one spring occurrence, and that was reported to me by Mr. Couch as having taken place at Herm on the 23rd of March, 1877.

The White-tailed Eagle is included in Professor Ansted’s list, but its range in the Islands is restricted to Guernsey.  There is one in the museum, probably killed in Guernsey, in the plumage in which the Channel Island specimens usually occur, but no note is given as to locality or date.

2.  Osprey. Pandion halioeetus, Linnaeus.  French, “Balbusard.”—­I have never met with the Osprey myself in the Channel Islands, nor have I, as far as I remember, seen a Channel Island specimen.  I include it, however, on the authority of a note kindly sent to me by Mr. MacCulloch, who says:—­“An Osprey was shot at St. Samsons, in Guernsey, on the 29th of October, 1868.  I cannot, however, say whether at the time it was examined by a competent naturalist, and as both the Osprey and the White-tailed Eagle are fishers, a mistake may have been made in naming it.”  Of course such a mistake as suggested is possible, but as the Guernsey fishermen and gunners, especially the St. Samsons men, are well acquainted with the White-tailed Eagle, I should not think it probable that the mistake had been made.  The bird, however, cannot be considered at all common in the Islands; there is no specimen in the Guernsey Museum, and Mr. Couch has never mentioned to me having had one through his hands, or recorded it in the ‘Zoologist,’ as he would have done had he had one; neither does Mrs. Jago (late Miss Cumber), who used to do a good deal of stuffing in Guernsey about thirty years ago, remember having had one through her hands.  There can be no reason, however, why it should not occasionally occur in the Islands, as it does so both on the French and English side of the Channel.  The wonder rather is that it is so rare as it appears to be.

The Osprey, however, is mentioned in Professor Ansted’s list, and only marked as occurring in Guernsey.

3.  Greenland Falcon. Falco candicans, Gmelin.—­I was much surprised on my last visit to Alderney, on the 27th of June, 1878, on going into a small carpenter’s shop in the town, whose owner, besides being a carpenter, is also an amateur bird-stuffer, though of the roughest description, to find, amongst the dust of his shop, not only the Purple Heron, which I went especially to see, and which is mentioned afterwards, but a young Greenland Falcon which he informed me had been shot in that island about eighteen months ago.  This statement