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12. I Par., I Smll. Bird. 



14- I Snpe., I W. C, I Par. 



16. I Female Sparr. Hawk, wd. 9 oz. i, 2 Snpes. i T. 

 Snpe. N.B. — I Snpe. left shot in Woodthorpe 

 Dam. 

 17th. 3 Snpes., 2 J. Snpes., i Car. Crow. 

 2ist. I Snpe., wd. 5 oz. 6 drs., i do. 

 22nd. I Wat. Hen, i Lark, i Snpe., i Fid. Fare, i do. 

 23rd. I Tawney Owl, i Fid. Fare, I do., i do., i do. 

 24th. 4 Snpes. 

 28th. 3 Snpes. 

 29th. 2 Snpes., 2 Pars. a. o. s. 



N.B.— The Tawney Owl above, a female, wd. 19 oz. \. 

 A male do. shot by Mr. Dixon same day, wd. 13 oz. J. 

 Dec. 1st. I Snpe., I do., 2 Snpes. a. o. s. 

 2nd. 2 Wood Larks, i Sky Lark. 

 Sth. I Snpe., i Squirrel. 

 6th. I J. Snpe., i fern. Spar. Hawk, wd. 10 oz., i 



Hen Bullfinch. 

 8th. 2 J. Snpes., i Snpe., i Cock Par., wd. 16 oz. i, 



I Hen Par., wd. 13 oz. 

 loth. I Snpe., i Par. 



N.B.— In the course of the last 3 weeks Mr. Dixon 

 shot 2 Bramblings. He shot at a Royston Crow 

 in Staveley ye 9th. On the loth I saw a bird 

 upon a piece of ice in Poolsbrook, which I 



guessed to be a Chelasser Dun Diver. '^' 



Saw also a small bird about the size of a Thrush 

 upon an ash tree, which I never saw before, 



and guessed to be the Chatterer or Garni- 



lus Bohemicus.'^" The same day shot at 

 some Wild Geese.'<^=' The weather was 

 now, and some time before had been, very 

 severe with frost and snow, &c., and the 



".rr^// "i"? '^'^ '""'" ^''°'" Anclior Church and Twyford distr ct 



"■■' Chatterer or Bohcnian Wax-oiw (Pomby cilia mrrula\ PrnhnKl,? I 



^T.TVTV'' '''^-™-. =«l'ho^ugh the'waxwi?;gmu tTereSd a's 



<" /^/y' ^^°"^^ occasionally visiting us in large numbers. ^"^ ^' 



[ Gj-w^.— The variety is not mentioned. A most difficult h.VH .^ 



approach Three Specimens of the Bean Goose were shorLponthi Trent n 



the neighbourhood of Repton in the winter of 1890. 



