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should lose sight of both birds among the trees, 

 and a recollection that such a specimen would 

 form a valuable addition to my cabinet, altered 

 my plans in a moment, and I had just time to 

 bring him down with a snap-shot as he turned 

 suddenly after the dove, which had already disap- 

 peared behind an oak. However, if the country 

 had been more open, so as to have admitted of a 

 view of the chase, I might, perhaps, have allowed 

 him to pursue his quarry unmolested. 



In the eastern division of the county the hobby 

 has been killed near Battle, Pevensey and Lewes; 

 it has also occurred more frequently in various 

 parts of the weald, and has been met with oc- 

 casionally on the south side of the Downs. There 

 is a specimen in the Chichester museum, which 

 was shot at Halnaker, in September, 1836, and I 

 have observed it near the great beech woods on 

 the higher Downs during the autumn: indeed, it 

 is at this season that the hobby has been ge- 

 nerally killed. They then evidently visit this 

 southern county in common with so many of our 

 summer visitors who intend to pass the winter 

 months in a more o-enial climate. 



