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another, which escaped. A few days afterwards, 

 a female bird was killed, at East Blatchington, 

 and another was observed, at Bishopstowe. On 

 the 16th of May I examined a specimen (in the 

 flesh) which had just been killed near Pagham. 

 This bird is now in the Chichester musenm. 



The occurrence of so many examples at the 

 same period seems to indicate that a straggling 

 detachment of orioles had alio:hted on our shores 

 from the Continent, and Avere afterwards dis- 

 persed over the country. — 3rd. edition.] 



Family Sylyiad^. 



Hedge Accentor or Hedge Sparrow, Accen- 

 tor modidaris. Common everywhere. 



Redbreast or Robin, Erythaca rubecula. As 

 elsewhere, a well-known and general favourite. 



Redstart or Firetail, Phcenicura ruticilla. 

 The very partial distribution of this bird is re- 

 markable. I never could discover it in any part 

 of the weald of West Sussex. It is even exceed- 

 ingly rare to the soutli of that region on the richer 

 soil of the lower green sandstone, in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Midhurst, Petworth, and Pulborough, 

 to the north of the Rother, which is here a tribu- 

 tary to the Arun: but on the long belt of ferru- 

 ginous sand to the south of that stream it is of 



