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and given to a lady in the Deighboui'hood ; one of them 

 soon died and is now in my possession." 



Boys inchides the Woodcock in his Birds of Sandwich, 

 179'2. In 1844 the Rev. J. Pemberton Bartlett states 

 that it is "common." 



In 1849 Mr. J. W. Hulke, in his Dates of the Arrival 

 of Winter Visitors to Deal, gives October 13. 



Morris records a nest that was found at Seacocks 

 Heath, near Hawkhurst, in Kent, and others near 

 Tunbridge and Goudhurst. 



Sir E. Fihner's keeper said that one was shot at 

 Sutton, September 13, 1867. An innkeeper in Maid- 

 stone (Mr. R. Dunk) stated that he had once seen a 

 Woodcock boring, and that it used its bill sideways. 



Mr. J. Gould, in his Birds of Great Britain (1873), 

 writes: "I have myself several times received young 

 birds from localities in the counties of Kent, &c." 

 There is a Woodcock and young obtained at St. Alban's 

 Court, Wingham, in 1890-91, by Mr. W. Oxenden 

 Hammond, in the Canterbury Museum. A male which 

 was killed on January 9, 1894, at Linton, in Kent, by 

 F. S. W. Cornwallis, Esq., is in the Maidstone Museum. 



In the Orlestone districts the first Woodcock shot in 

 1902 was on October 13, and in 1903 the first shot 

 was on October 14. 



In the Zoologist, 1903, Mr. R. J. Balston wrote 

 " that in the second week of last month (April) a 

 Woodcock's nest was found in a wood in the neighbour- 

 hood of Orlestone, Kent. It had four eggs, which had 

 to be taken, as the wood was being cut ; they were all 

 fresh and easily blown. Another nest was found with 

 five eggs, which have since been hatched, and the 3'oung 

 birds gone off. One of my keepers informed me that 



