98 Mr. A. Newton on Mr. J. Wolley^s Discovery 



they have ever seen Sidensvaus before. As I have also told 

 you, it seemed to be known to a very few wood's-men on that 

 side of the country under the name of ' Korwa-rastas' or 'Korwa- 

 lintu' (Ear-bird). It had occasionally attracted their attention^, 

 as having feathers on its head standing up like squirrel's ears. 

 It was not till the second year of my stay here that I ascertained 

 this with certainty. The first summer I believed it to be 

 ' Harrhi,' a bird coming in bad seasons, and properly the Com- 

 mon Jay ; but it seems that this name is also really sometimes 

 given to Sidensvans, and therefore, as well as for other reasons, 

 I am inclined to believe that the bird is only here very occa- 

 sionally. * * * * 



* * * " The young Waxwing I should wish our old friend 

 Yarrell to describe, for I think it would give him pleasure. He 

 might exhibit a nest and eggs at the same time with a pair of 

 the birds in breeding-plumage to the Zoological Society; but, 

 for special reasons, I should wish the Waxwing not to be talked 

 about till the spring." 



Mr. Yarrell' s death having prevented Mr. Wolley's wish from 

 being carried out, the announcement of the discovery was com- 

 municated to the Zoological Society, in the short though very 

 comprehensive paper I have before alluded to, at their meeting 

 on the 24th March, 1857, the specimens being exhibited by my 

 brother Edward. They consisted of two nests — one of which (the 

 original of the figure in the ' Illustrated Proceedings ^*) was 

 afterwards deposited, with an egg, in the British Museum, while 

 the other was presented (also with an egg) to the museum at 

 Norwich, the authorities of which had for some time past taken a 

 warm interest in Mr. Wolley's researches, — a pair of birds in their 

 breeding-plumage, the nestling before mentioned (all three of which 

 are now at Norwich), and some seven or eight examples of the 

 egg. Of these latter, the two figured in the plate in the ' Pro- 

 ceedings ' were subsequently sold at Mv. Stevens's rooms, and 

 purchased by Sir William Milner, in whose collection they still 

 remain. A third, sold at the same time, became the property of 

 Mr. Henry Walter ; and specimens were given to Mr. Wilmot, 

 Mr. W. H. Simpson, and myself. 



* Illust. Proc. Zool. Soc. 185/, Aves, pi. cxxii. 



