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with much greater force and propriety to many of them. But, 

 in addition to the black bands on the cheeks, there is a beautiful 

 broad blush of orange-red round the neck of the rarer Regulus, 

 which is absent in Regulus cristatus. I dislike changes of name ; 

 yet " Fire-crested^^ appears to convey a wrong impression. 

 Young naturalists fall in with a bright-crested male of one kind, 

 and fancy that it is the other. I find, in my notes, the capture 

 of a Regulus ignicapillus on the Dyke-road, near Brighton, re- 

 corded, 29th October 1853; and Mr. Swaysland tells me of a 

 fourth instance many years before. These are all the cases of 

 its occurrence that I can give in these parts. 



A Crested Lark [Alauda cristata) was also brought in by a 

 bird-catcher, from near Shoreham, alive, 20th October, as I saw 

 the same day. If Mr. Morris's Sussex example counts as the 

 second (though no particulars have been given), this would be 

 the third time of its appearance in this country. I have reason 

 to believe there have been more passing over this autumn. 



Lastly, a Sea Eagle [Haliaetus albicilla) was shot on the beach 

 near New Shoreham, 12th November. It had been sailing in 

 the air over the church, and is said to have weighed 10^ lbs. 

 This is a quarter of a pound more than the bird killed, Febru- 

 ary 1858, at Arundel. 



One of these Eagles appears to visit this neighbourhood every 

 two or three years, as I have a memorandum of the death of 

 another from an ornithological friend, 23rd February 1860, who 

 states that it met its end not far from the Lighthouse, Seaford, 

 a few days before. Their destruction I mention with regret. 

 I am. Sir, 



Yours, &c., 



George Dawson Rowley. 



Lyon, le 29 Novembre, 1863. 

 Monsieur, — Plusieurs ornithologistes se sont eleves contre la 

 tendance de quelques auteurs k multiplier le nombre des especes, 

 et cherchent au contraire k le diminuer autant que possible. 

 D'autres, voulant eviter ces deux exces, y tombent quelquefois 

 sans le vouloir. Les nombreux memoires qui ont ete publics. 



