342 BRITISH BIRDS. 



the actual information at present available would represent, 

 there is not a sing-le record of recent years to the east of 

 a line from Hythe to Rochester. 



In south-west Sussex a pair of birds were liberated at 

 Knepp Castle in 1876, but were both apparently killed in 

 March and April of the following year within a distance 

 of ten miles. "^ 



* Borrer, Birds of Sussex, p. 33. 



