GOLDEN ORIOLE 123 



Mr. Edward Newman, in his remarks on the Golden 

 Oriole in England in the Zoologist, 1870, states that Mr. 

 C. Gordon, of Dover, received one killed on April 29, 

 1870. 



There are three specimens in the Exeter Museum, a 

 male and two females, labelled Kent, the bequest of the 

 Eev. Bower-Scott. 



Mr. J. E. Harting gives the following interesting 

 account of the nesting of the Golden Oriole in Kent in 

 the Field of October 3, 1874 :— 



"Although the discovery of a Golden Oriole's nest in 

 England is not unprecedented, it is of sufliciently rare 

 occurrence to attract the attention of naturalists, more 

 especially when the finder (as in the case to which I am 

 about to allude) has the humanity and good sense to 

 permit the young to be reared, instead of shooting the 

 parent birds the moment they are discovered, and thus 

 effectually putting a stop to all attempts at nidification. 



" It is a pleasure to be able to record the fact that 

 during the past summer a pair of Golden Orioles took 

 up their quarters in Dumpton Park, Isle of Thanet, 

 where — the proprietor, Mr. Bankes Tomlin, having given 

 strict injunctions that they should not be disturbed — they 

 built a nest and successfully reared their young, ultimately 

 leading them away in safety. 



"They must have commenced building somewhat later 

 than usual, for it was not until July 6 that I first heard 

 of the nest, and the young were then just hatched. Mr. 

 Bankes Tomlin having kindly invited me to come and 

 see it, I lost no time in availing myself of the invitation, 

 and a few days later, namely, on July 12, I found myself 

 at Dumpton Park, standing under the very tree in which 

 the nest was placed. The reader may smile at the idea 



