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in my park during the previous summer. You will be 

 interested to hear that this year a pair (whether the 

 same or not I cannot say) have again built a nest in 

 my grounds and raised their young. The latter left the 

 nest on June 28, 1875. The old male bird was ver}^ 

 bright in colour, being of a rich yellow with black wings." 



" On April 21 I saw in Westerham Park, Kent, a 

 male specimen of Oriolus galhula feeding in company 

 with two or three thrushes. I watched it for nearly 

 half an hour, hoping to see a female Oriole, but failed 

 to detect one. I have abstained from recording this rare 

 visitant, trusting to give it a chance of life, until it had 

 overcome the fatigue of migration. — J. T. Carrington 

 {Zoologist, 1889, p. 234). 



Mr. G. Dowker, in his Birds of East Kent (p. 42), 

 says : " At this date (June, 1889) we have some Golden 

 Orioles at Preston, near here " (Stourmouth). 



"On May 15 a Golden Oriole (female) was shot in 

 an orchard close to High Halden. A few weeks later 

 (June 9) a male was observed near Sissinghurst (about eight 

 miles from the former place). On the day after its 

 arrival rain fell heavily, and the bird was lost sight of, 

 taking refuge, no doubt, in the thick fir portions of the 

 Hemsted Woods. Prior to the above records another 

 male bird appeared during May, 1893, in the same wood. 

 The ' Loriot ' call, whence this bird derives its name, 

 attracted the keeper's attention, and thinking his boy, 

 engaged in arranging Pheasant-coops in a wood below 

 his cottage, was whistling for help, he started out in the 

 direction of the sound. This eventually led to the dis- 

 covery of the bird, and also to its destruction." — Boyd 

 Alexander {Zoologist, 1896, p. 346). 



