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Hird Alotes. 
The Dipper or Water Ouzel (Cinclus aquaticus) in Wilts. 
This bird, though frequent enough along streams in Devon, Somerset, 
and South Dorset, had, when Smith’s Birds of Wilts was published in 
1887, been only twice recorded as occurring within the limits of the 
county of Wilts. In 1899, however, a pair reared their young at Castle 
Combe for the third year in succession, and since then the birds have 
considerably increased in numbers there—more than one pair nesting 
there every year. The Devizes Gazette for Feb. 16th, 1899, recorded the 
fact that a pair had appeared in that month at the Stalls, Longleat, and 
of course had been shot. There is no reason whatever, why the bird 
should not become generally distributed in the county if only keepers and 
‘local gunners” can be kept in order and prevented from shooting them 
before they have time to establish themselves. 
The Bittern. Two specimens were shot on the Littlecote estate, one 
in January and one in February, 1902. 
The Hoopoe. One was found dead on a lawn near Trowbridge at the 
end of April, 1900. | Devizes Gazette, May 3rd. 
Cormorants. Some twenty-five of these birds alighted on some high 
trees at Marden on October 2nd, 1902. They were apparently much 
* exhausted. One was caught alive and several were of course at once 
shot. They were seen the next day travelling in a south-westerly 
direction. Field, and Devizes Gazette, Oct. Sth, 1902. 
Wilts Obituary. 
ix Edward Hulse, sixth baronet, of Breamore House, Hants, shot 
_ himself at Johannesburg, May 30th, 1903. Born Aug. 25th, 1859. 
_ Educated at Eton and Brasenose College, Oxford. J.P. and D.L., for 
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