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and shot, a bird of the second year ; another was 

 observed soon afterwards." 



In the Canterbury Museum there is a specimen, 

 obtained at the mouth of Sandwich Harbour, August, 

 1895, in Mr. W. Oxenden Hammond's collection. 



In the Zoologist, 1895, Mr. W. Oxenden Hammond, 

 of St. Alban's Court, Wingham, states that " during 

 the last week of August an Avocet was shot not far 

 from the North Foreland, and was brought to me the 

 following day. It was a bird of last year, in very 

 good condition. The shooter reported that there were 

 three in company, only one of which he secured." 



On August 29, 1903, Dr. N. F. Ticehurst records that 

 an Avocet was shot between Eye and Lydd, in Kent. 



Genus HIMANTOPUS, Brisson. 

 BLACK- WINGED STILT. 



Himantoims liimantopus (Liniicieus). 8.N., i., p. 255 



(1766). 



The only record of the occurrence of this species in 

 Kent is that contained in Mr. J. E. Harting's Handbook 

 of British Biids, p. 421, 1901. A specimen which was 

 killed at Faversham, Kent, now in the Canterbury 

 Museum. 



Genus PHALAROPUS, Brisson. 

 EED-NECKED PHALAEOPE. 



Fhalaropus hyperhoreus (Linnaeus). S.N., i., p. 249 



(1766). 



A rare winter visitor to Kent, and few records of its 

 occurrence are to be found. 



