with an upper stratum quite two inches thick composed almost entirely of the wings of Cicadas, with a few butterfly and moth wings interspersed therein. To my disappointment, I found neither eggs nor nestlings. During the rifling of their nest both the male and female Falcons sat on a neighbouring tree, but made no demonstration of any kind. Further south, in Tenasserim, I found the eggs of this Falcon in a precisely similar situation early in April, as well as I can remember. That nest was composed almost entirely of butterfly wings.—C.T. Bingham.
AMPHIBIA.
Palmate Newt (Molge palmata) in Carnarvonshire.—On May 12th I found a small pond at the back of the Little Orme's Head teeming with Palmate Newts. There were also numbers of Great Crested Newts, but no Common Newts, nor could I find any of the latter elsewhere in the district. The male Palmate Newts were all showing in perfection the webbed feet and tail-filament characteristic of the breeding season. The females were still full of spawn, and some that I brought away have laid eggs since in the aquarium.—H.E. Forrest (Shrewsbury).
PISCES.
File Fish off Brighton.—Thinking it may interest the readers of 'The Zoologist,' I am sending (in place of a description) a rough sketch of
a File Fish (Balistes capriscus), taken about five miles off Brighton on the 10th October, 1900, which has been presented to the Brighton Museum by
