GOLDEN ORIOLE 121 



you the following extract from a letter of my friend, Mr. 

 C. A. Delmar, who has been fortunate enough to shoot 

 a Golden Oriole. He says : ' I heard of its arrival from 

 my brother, who resides at Elmstone ; he wrote to me 

 on June 6, asking me to come over to shoot a Golden 

 Oriole, which he had seen and heard in the very same 

 spot where a male and a female Golden Oriole, with their 

 nest and eggs, were taken last year about this time. I 

 had the good luck to shoot this bird on the 6th, and on 

 comparing it with the others we are of opinion it is a 

 female ; the colour of the plumage is not very bright, 

 and resembles the female taken last year. I have stuffed 

 it, and it is now in the possession of my brother, with 

 the birds shot last year. "We looked the place well over 

 and found only this bird, and my brother has been to the 

 spot every day since, but has not seen or heard another. 

 A very beautiful male Golden Oriole was shot at Lydd, 

 in the latter part of May last, by a farmer who saw it 

 settle on his window ; a female w^as also seen, but she 

 escaped. Before hearing of the Golden Oriole from my 

 brother at Elmstone, I saw in the marshes on my way 

 to Word a Golden Oriole fly from a thick bush to a bush 

 a short distance off; at last it flew away in the direction 

 of Word, and I was not able to find it again." — J. W. 

 Hulke, Deal, June 17, 1850 {Zoologist, 1850, p. 2851). 



There are specimens in the Canterbury Museum from 

 Mr. W. Oxenden Hammond's collection from Elmstone 

 in Kent. 



Golden Oriole Nesting near Deal. — " A few days since, 

 when at Sandwich, a person there who partly gains bis 

 living by bird-stufting, told me that ten years ago the 

 Golden Oriole bred in Word Wood (a small wood on the 

 border of the marshes, very boggy in winter, w^ith very 



