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A male and female in my collection were ob- 

 tained near the ruins of Amberley Castle. A pair 

 were also shot at Fishbourne, near Chichester, by 

 a retired military serjeant of the name of Carter ; 

 a very successful gunner, who has had the good 

 fortune to meet with some of our rarest birds in 

 that neighbourhood. 



Family Ampelid.e. 



Bohemian Waxwing, or Chatterer. Bomhy- 

 cilla garrula. Of rare occurrence in Sussex, 

 and only during very severe snow and frost. In 

 January, 1848, two of these birds were shot in a 

 garden at Newtimber, feeding on the berries of 

 a red haw tree — a variety of the whitethorn 

 which produces pink or apple-like blossoms and 

 unusually large fruit : one of these is in my own 

 cabinet. A few years since a chatterer was killed 

 at Beeding, one at Newhaven, and another near 

 Shoreham by a person of the name of Dyer. 

 There is also a specimen in the Chichester museum 

 which was shot in that neighbourhood. 



During the winter of 1849-50, several examples 

 of the Bohemian waxwing appeared in Sussex. 

 It was met with on Lewes Levels and at Siddle- 

 sham. Mr. Spencer Dickins informed me that 

 two were shot at Coolhurst early in January^ 



