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shot near here (Deal). In the first and second weeks of 

 January, 1848, eight were shot." — J. W. Hulke, Deal. 



Mr. A. Clarke-Kennedy states : " I have this day 

 (December 3, 1867) received a letter from my friend, 

 Mr. H. AVhitely, of Woolwich, who tells me that he 

 has had brought to him, during last week, no less than 

 eight good specimens of the AVaxwing. This species is 

 now, I believe, a very rare and only occasional visitor to 

 the British Isles. Some of these were shot in the Plum- 

 stead Marshes, near Woolwich, and two were procured 

 in the Maryon Eoad at Charlton, which is about four 

 miles from Plumstead. They were all, I believe, excel- 

 lent specimens. I do not know on what days they were 

 shot, whether on fine ones or the contrary ; but I pre- 

 sume that it was partly owing to the weather that such 

 a number (in comparison) should be taken about the 

 same time." 



Mr. W. Prentis, in the Birds of Bainham, says : " The 

 Waxwing is extremely rare in this district, only two, to 

 my knowledge, have been obtained ; one was shot from 

 a pair in our woods in 1867, another obtained in an 

 orchard the same year. A small flight was seen in an 

 orchard at Milton." 



The Waxwing was seen by the Kev. C. H. Fielding 

 at Higham, and others round the neighbourhood of 

 Eochester, in the winters of 1879-80 and 1880-81. An 

 occasional and very pretty winter visitor. 



There is a specimen of the Waxwing in the Canterbury 

 Museum, from Nonington, the bequest of Mr. W. Oxenden 

 Hammond, and one killed in Kent, presented by Mr. G. 

 Simmons, in the Maidstone Museum, and a female was 

 procured at Smarden, January 4, 1893 (Land and Water). 



Mr. Ogilvie-Grant reports that two examples of the 



