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on the evening of January 20th, 1865, having been 
taken by a birdcatcher in a clap net at Toads Hole, 
near Hangleton, about a mile and a half from the 
sea. The man who caught it was struck by its loud 
note and drove it about for nearly 2 hours before he 
could get it into the net. Ultimately he managed 
to “ pull” the net over just as it flew across, being 
put up by sheep feeding in the field. There was 
nothing to attract it in the net, but being an expert 
hand, he succeeded in a way Mr. Rowley says he had 
often seen used by birdeatchers, and which astonished 
him much when he first became acquainted with it. 
Four outer feathers of its tail had been, as he sup- 
posed, shot away, and the stumps of the new ones 
were just showing. He also mentions that it had 
passed into Mr. Monk’s collection. 
(See also ‘‘ Birds of Sussex,” p, 103) 
HOBBY. 
Case 328. 
These hawks breed, though rarely, in Sussex, 
The pair in the case were shot on their nest near 
Firle, Sussex, at Whitsun, 1869, by Mr. Frank 
Trangmar, of Brighton, who presented them to the 
Museum in 1897. 
RED-FOOTED FALCON: 
Case 329. 
The middle one of these three birds, an adult 
male in fine plumage, was shot by Walter Swaysland 
near the Brighton Racecourse, May 20, 1870, and 
was acquired by the late Mr. Monk of Lewes. 
Mr. Dawson Rowley, in his Miscellany, Vol. 1, 
p. 58, records this bird. It had been feeding on two 
sorts of beetles, and he mentions that after two 
days it became very high “‘as is usually the case with 
those birds which live on beetles and some other 
