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that agrees with it and which was obtained in the same 

 place in the spring of 1893, though the actual date he 

 omitted to record. N. F. Ticehurst. 



GREAT GREY SHRIKE IN SUSSEX. 



On January 6th, 1914, a sjDecimen of the Great Grey 

 Shrike {Lanius e. excuhilor) was shot at Brightling, Sussex, 

 and examined by me in the flesh on the following day. I 

 found it to be an adult female of the form that has only 

 one white wing-bar, generally known as Pallas's Great 

 Grey Shrike. H. W. Ford-Lindsay. 



INCURSION OF WAXWINGS. 



A LARGE number of Wax wings {Ampelis garrulus) appear 

 to have visited Great Britain this winter, and we shall 

 be glad to have particulars of date, number, and place of 

 any occurrences known to our readers. The following 

 have been reported : — 



Yorkshire. — Holderness, November 10, 1913, one received 

 (H.F.W.) ; flock of thirty or forty seen, of which five were 

 sent to a bird-stuifer at Hull (W. Redfern). Skelton, 

 December 13th, flock of twelve, two shot (T. H. Nelson). 

 Howclen, December 20th, one shot {Field, 3.1.1914, p. 3). 

 Beverley, late November, party of five {op. ciL, p. 89). 

 North Cave, December 21st, flock of six or eight, one shot 

 (W. Redfern). 



Lincolnshire. — North-west district. December 7th. one 

 seen {Field, 13.XII.1913, p. 1252). 



Nottinghamshire. — Lowdham, December 31st, 1913, one 

 seen (C. E. Pearson). 



Shropshire. — Broseley, January 13th, two seen, one 

 caught (H. E. Forrest). 



Worcestershire. — Jardley Wood, January 1st, two shot 

 (A. G. Leigh). 



Norfolk. — Westwick, about December 9th, one ; Earlham, 

 about December 18th, one ; Hethel, about December 23rd, 

 one ; near Norwich, about December 23rd, two ; Smallburgh, 

 December 27th, two ; Northrepps, January 1st, one ; Stan- 

 field, beginning of January, two or more reported, and three 

 were received from different places in east Norfolk by Mr. 

 Roberts ; Mr. Saunders, of Yarmouth, had eleven to stuff ; 

 Fritton, January 9th, one (J. H. Gurney). 



Middlesex. — Hampstead, January 11, 1914, one {Field. 

 17 J. 1914, p. 139). 



