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Catalogue of Cases of Birds in the Dyke Road Museum, Brighton. 

 By E. T. Booth; with further notes by A. F. Griffith. 

 4th Edition, 1911. 

 In Vol. Ill,, pp. 294-5, we briefly noticed the supplement 

 to the third edition of the Catalogue of this important local 

 museum. Since then, further additions have been made to 

 the collection, and a number of fresh cases having been 

 prepared, entailing a certain amount of rearrangement, 

 the time has no doubt arrived for a further edition of the 

 Catalogue. This has been prepared under the able editor- 

 ship of Mr. A. F. Griffith, in a manner uniform with its 

 predecessors. 



With the exception of one or two additional notes and 

 the substitution of four fresh plates, the main portion of 

 the Catalogue (200 pages) remains unaltered, as left by 

 Mr. Booth; it is the remaining forty odd pages, therefore, 

 that chiefly concern us here. In these will be found the 

 additional specimens that have been acquired since 1893, 

 with their histories and notes upon them from the pen of 

 Mr. Griffith, who is to be congratulated on the careful and 

 able manner in which he has traced out and put together 

 the histories of these specimens, and more particalaHy those 

 of the older ones from the Borrer, Monk, and Wilberforce 

 collections, so that there remain very few whose complete 

 authenticity is yet doubtful. The most important additions 

 since the publication of the supplement, appear to be the 

 American Bittern from Hollingburv Park, a Water-Pipit 

 from Pevensey, a Yellow-browed Warbler and two Scarlet 

 Grosbeaks from the Isle of May, a pair of Sociable Plovers 

 from Winchelsea, and the Sooty Tern from Brighton, all 

 of which have been already referred to in our pages. Besides 

 these, there are a few that do not appear to have been pre- 

 viously recorded, viz : — 



Richard's Pipit {Anthus richardi). — ^Two adults shot by 

 the late Mr. Malcolm J. Wykeham-Martin at Aldrington 

 Basins, Sussex, prior to December, 1889, and bequeathed 

 by him to the collection in 1911. 



AvocET {Eecurvirostra avocefta). — An adult male, from 

 the Borrer collection, shot at Frensham Pond, Surrey, July 

 5th, 1846 (a second is said to have been shot with it). 



Rough-legged Buzzard [Buteo lagopus). — ^Near Ashford, 

 Kent, November, 1910. 



