68 THE BIBDS OF KENT 



In the Birds of East Kent, 1889, Mr. G. Dowker says : 

 " The Fire-crested Wren is very rare ; it has heen met 

 with on several occasions, and may be more common 

 than is generally supposed, being mistaken for the 

 common Golden-crested Wren : the latter, I often find, 

 builds in my Deodara. A specimen, on the authority of 

 Mr. C. Gordon, was obtained at Whitfield, near Dover, in 

 1884." The Eev. C. H. Fielding gives Higham and the 

 Mailing valley as localities in which it has been found. 

 In his Ornithological Notes from Bye, Captain Boyd 

 Alexander says : " On October 10, a very handsome male 

 Fire-crested Wren was shot to-day on a tall apple-tree, 

 in a garden near Lydd." In the Zoologist, 1906, Captain 

 Boyd Alexander writes that " on March 3, near Tun- 

 bridge Wells (in Kent), I saw a small bird in a place 

 where Goldcrests have been fairly numerous this winter, 

 which I supposed to be of that species ; however, it 

 approached so near that I was able to see distinctly 

 the black eye-stripe and white eyebrows which are 

 characteristic of the Firecrest. Since then several 

 others, including a well-known ornithologist as well 

 as myself, have several times observed this bird, and 

 a second — no doubt its mate — has also been seen." 



At a meeting of the British Ornithologists' Club, held 

 on January 17, 1906, Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant " exhibited 

 a male Fire-crested Wren, which had been picked up in 

 a dying condition at Abbey Wood, Kent, on January 10, 

 1906, and forwarded to the British Museum by Mrs. 

 A. G. Mitchell " {Bulletin of the B.O.C., vol. xvi., p. 45, 

 1906). 



