162 A. F. CKOSSMAN — NOTES ON BIEDS. 



Species. Locality. Date. Observer. 



Grey "Wagtail (Last seen) Berkhamsted Mar. 25 J. G. Grossman. 



(Motacilla melanope) 



(First seen) Berkhamsted Sept. 17 A. F. C. 



Sawbridgeworth Oct. 3 H. S. Rivers. 



Hooded Crow (Last seen) Sawbridgeworth Mar. 22 H. S. Rivers. 



(Cor«;Mscorai.(;) (First seen) Sawbridgeworth Oct. 17 H. S. Rivers. 



AshweU ,, 22 H. G. Fordhara. 



Odsey ,, 22 H. G. Fordham. 



I should like to ask members of this Society, when they see 

 stuffed birds preserved in houses in Hertfordshire, to inquire 

 whether such birds were obtained in the county, and if they were, 

 to obtain further particulars about them, and to let me have such 

 particulars, and also to inform me of the whereabouts of any such 

 specimens. By this means much information might possibly be 

 obtained about birds which have been procured in our county in 

 former times. With reference to birds mounted in cases, I would 

 remind you that very often some particulars are written on the 

 back of the case, and that such particulars may be the means 

 of bringing to light the histoiy of the bird. I should like to get 

 correspondents from the central parts of the county, such as the 

 districts around Hertford, Hatfield, and Buntingford, and also from 

 the eastern side of the county where it borders on Essex, in which 

 part I have at present only one correspondent — Mr. Rivers, of 

 Sawbridgeworth. It would be of great assistance to me if members 

 living in those districts which I have just mentioned, would, if 

 not interested in ornithology themselves, try to get some friend 

 to send me notes on the birds of their neighbourhood every year. 

 I have received some most useful information from Hitchin and 

 Iloyston. The notes from the latter place include so much of the 

 history of the avifauna of the district, that it is proposed to read 

 them before the Society as a separate paper. 



In conclusion, I beg to thank all my correspondents most heartily 

 for their assistance in supplying me with materials for this paper, 

 and I only hope that they will be kind enough to continue their 

 efforts in that way through many years to come. 



