32 THE BIRDS OP KENT 



by Mr. E. G. Eogers in February, 1903, at Ivychurch, 

 in Eomney Marsh. In his notes on the birds of the 

 Orlestone district, Mr. E. T. Fihner states that a pair 

 or two are " usually seen on the railway line, on the 

 Ashford side of Golden Wood, for a few days in spring, 

 and then disappear." The Eev. J. Pemberton Bartlett, 

 writing in 1844, says the Stonechat is " common in 

 Kent." Among the birds mentioned by Mr. M. Hutchin- 

 son at Shooter's Hill is the Stonechat : "I heard the 

 chirp of the Stonechat on April 16, 1844." Mr. W. H. 

 Power, in his observations on the birds of Eainham, 

 says it is " a resident species, in the summer fre- 

 quenting the higher ground, where it breeds ; in the 

 winter appearing on the marshes, where I first noticed 

 it this season on September 29, 1865." In Mr. H. 

 Lamb's notes, he says it is " not common about Maid- 

 stone." It is included in the birds of Kent by the 

 Eev. C. H. Fielding in his Handbook of Higham, 1882. 

 Specimens in the Maidstone Museum were procured 

 at Linton, on March 30, 1888, and October 25, 1889, 

 by Mr. H. Kennard, and another in Eomney Marsh, 

 by Mr. J. D. Parker. In the Birds of East Kent, by 

 Mr. G. Dowker, the Stonechat is said to be "resident and 

 moderately common." It is also mentioned from the 

 following localities : Nonington, W.O.Hammond; Dover, 

 C. Gordon ; Walmer, Eev. B. Austen ; Dover, Plomley 

 Collection. It "frequently occurs in the Mailing valley," 

 according to the Eev. C. H. Fielding. Mr. W. Prentis, 

 in his Birds of Bainham, 1894, says " the Stonechat is 

 more common with us in winter than in summer." 



