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obtain it. The liird jjresently flew into some long grass and then 

 over the inner wall, uttering a " tick, tick, tick " call, when my 

 friend shot it. Mr. Harwood, our Club member, and Mr Swales, 

 of Sleights, were with us on the followina; day, and the former 

 friend skiinied and set the bird up and forwarded it to the South 

 Kensington Museum, where it was identified by Mr. Ogilvie 

 Grant as being the Little Bunting [Einlieriza jmsiJ/a), which is 

 only the second example for the British Isles. The first was 

 obtained near Brighton, about November 2nd, 1864. 



Our specimen was exhibited at a meeting of the British 

 Ornithologists' Club on October 22nd, 1902, and is by dissection 

 a female. 



"FLINT JACK," HIS LIFE-HISTORY.* 



By W. G. Clarke. 



"The very Prince of fabricators of antiques," was the 

 description of " Flint Jack " given by Mr. Llewell}^ Jewitt, 

 F.S.A., in an article in the "Reliquary" for October, 1867. It 

 is improbable that " Flint Jack " surpassed some of the Brandon 

 knappers of the present day in the production of si^urious flint 

 implements, but none of these can claim his wonderful versatility. 

 Prior to his death, and when his fame was at its highest, there 

 appeared various articles in the magazine.'3 dealing with this 

 wonderful impostor. The details of his life have chiefly been 

 culled from these, although various correspondents have rendered 

 material assistance. In addition to the article already mentioned, 

 others were published in the " ^Nfalton Messenger," " All the Year 

 Round," the "People's Magazine," and the "Catalogue of the 

 Salisbury Society." 



So far as can be ascertained, " Flint Jack's" correct name was 

 Edward Simpson, and he was born in the village of Sleights, near 

 "VVhiMiy, in the year 1815. He was, in later years, equally well 

 known as John Wilson of Burlington, and Edwartl Jackson ; while 

 liis other cdiaxex included " Fossil Willy" (on the Yorkshire coast) ; 

 " Bones " (at AVhitby) ; " Shirtless " (in the Eastern Counties) ; 

 "The Old Antiquarian" (Wilts and Dorset); "Snake Billy," 

 " Cockney Bill," and " Flint Jack " universally. 



* Reprinted by permission from tlic Transactions of the Norfolk and 

 Norwich Naturalists' Society, Vol. vi. 



