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bramble, and so caught it. I look on it with |a certain 

 amount of suspicion." This bird is in Mr. Hammond's 

 collection, now in the Canterbury Museum, labelled from 

 Dover Cliffs. 



The Eev. C. H. Fielding, in Mailing and its Valley, 

 1893, states that it was also seen in 1890 at Sitting- 

 bourne in Kent, without giving any data. 



MASKED SHKIKE. 



Lanius niobicus, Licht. Verz. Douhl., p. 47 (1823). 



The Masked Shrike was only added to the British 

 birds in 1905, and the record of the occurrence was 

 made by Mr. M. J. Nicoll, who exhibited a specimen at 

 a meeting of the British Ornithological Club on October 

 18, 1905. This specimen was an adult male, which had 

 been shot at Woodchurch, Kent, on July 11, 1905, and 

 examined by Mr. Nicoll while in the flesh {Bulletin of 

 the B.O.C., vol. xvi., p. 22). 



Family AMPELID^. 



Genus AMPELIS, Linnaeus. 

 WAXWING. 



Ampelifi garrulus, Linnaeus. S.N., p. 297 (1766). 



The most beautiful bird that visits this county is the 

 Waxwing ; one cannot but admire the blending of its 

 soft, silky plumage, its form, and graceful movements. 

 Unfortunately, it is only a winter visitor, when its 

 secluded habits of keeping to the thicker forests of fir 



