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met with among tall reecls on the banks of large 

 ponds and in sedgy swamps ; but from the size 

 and remarkable apj^earance of the bird, when on 

 the wing, there is little chance, now-a-days, of its 

 remaining for any length of time undiscovered 

 or unmolested. I have seen the bittern flushed 

 from the reed-beds at the upper pond in Burton 

 Park. 



Night Heron, Nycticorax Gardeni. Has been 

 shot on two or three occasions in Sussex. Mr. 

 W. Borrer informed me that he examined a recent 

 specimen, which was killed near Alfriston, in No- 

 vember, 1889 — a bird of the year. Since that 

 period another example has occurred near Cuck- 

 mere Haven. 



[A male Night Heron was killed near Apple- 

 dram sluice by Serjeant Carter, on the 6th of 

 September, 1851. This bird is now in the col- 

 lection of the Bishop of Oxford, at Lavington. — 

 3rd edition.] 



White Spoonbill, Platalea leucorodia. A 

 rare straggler. Has been shot at Rye and at 

 Pagham Harbour. The Chichester museum con- 

 tains an example which was killed in that neigh- 

 bourhood, and a fine specimen in my own collec- 

 tion was shot near Seaford, in the autumn of 1844. 



Glossy Ibis, Ibis falcinellus. A specimen of 

 this rare straggler is now in the possession of 



