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another occurred at Storrington, and Mr. Walter 

 Burrell favoured me with a notice of two hav- 

 ing- been killed at West Grinstead about the 



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same time. 



On the 22nd of January I received an example 

 from the Rev. W. Barlee, of West Chiltington, 

 which had been shot on the previous day by his 

 son while it was in the act of devouring the 

 berries of a haw tree in the gi'ounds of the 

 Rectory. 



Family Motacillid^. 



White Wagtail, Motacilla alba. An occa- 

 sional summer visitor, but from its close resem- 

 blance to the pied wagtail, frequently escapes no- 

 tice. Mr. Yarrell has enumerated some of their 

 distinctive characters; the most striking of which, 

 however, is the loermanent pearl grey or light ash 

 grey of the whole of the back in the white wag- 

 tail, including the upijer tail coverts, which in 

 the pied wagtail are invariably dark. 



[Since the publication of the second edition of 

 this book, several examples of the continental 

 white wagtail have been detected in the vicinity 

 of Brighton, by Mr. Swaysland. Three were 

 shot by himself, at Hove, in April, 1853, and 

 others were killed near Worthing during the same 

 month. — 3rd edition.] 



