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observed in a garden for some days before it was 

 killed. 



[On the 1st of May, 1851, Mr. J. B. EUman 

 procured a Pied Flycatcher which had been shot 

 at Firle, the seat of Lord Gage, and about the 

 middle of May, 1853, two specimens of this bird 

 were shot at Lancing, and preserved for Lieut- 

 Colonel Carr. One of these was an adult male, 

 the other an immature bird. About the same 

 time a third example was picked up dead in a 

 garden at Lindfield. — 3rd edition.] 



Family Merulid^. 



Missel Thrush, Turclus viscivorus. Common 

 in all parts of the county. Prefers small coppices 

 and plantations in the vicinity of a house to great 

 woods during the breeding-season. Such is the 

 pugnacious disposition of this thrush that two 

 nests are seldom found in the immediate neigh- 

 bourhood of each other. 



Fieldfare, Turdus pilaris. A regular au- 

 tumnal and winter visitor. In severe seasons is 

 abundant in all parts of the county, but in open 

 weather principally affects heaths and commons. 

 I have known them detained by a backward 

 spring as late as the 3rd of May, but I never could 

 detect their arrival before the 1st of November. 



