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allowed the dog to approach within a yard of it before 

 taking wing." — Colonel C. Willmot, Eddington Cottage 

 Eddington, Kent {Zoologist, 1885, p. 480). 



In the Standard of January 28, 1886, Colonel Willmot 

 added the following note respecting the foregoing speci- 

 men : "I obtained it in Strode Park, Heme, the seat of 

 Mr. Prescott-Westcar, and on examination it was found 

 that, although the bird is called a Nutcracker, and pre- 

 sumably is a nut-eater, its stomach contained more 

 specimens of small coleoptera than vegetable or other 

 matter." 



The fourth specimen is recorded as follows: "Dr. 

 N. F. Ticehurst exhibited at a meeting of the British 

 Ornithologists' Club, on January 18, 1905, a Nutcracker 

 which had been shot on January 14, 1905, by a game- 

 keeper at Benenden, in Kent. It was a male by dissec- 

 tion" {Bulletin of the B.O.C., vol. xv., 1905, p. 31). 



Genus GARRULUS, Brisson. 



JAY. 



Garrulus glanclarius (Linnaeus). >S'.A^., i., p. 156 



(1766). 

 Joy. 



In all the old woods and plantations throughout the 

 county the Jay still holds its own, generally keeping in 

 pairs. Where the woods are not preserved they are 

 more abundant and breed more freely, but in the pheasant 

 preserves it has been found necessary to keep them under, 

 on account of the destruction of the eggs and young of 

 the game. 



