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insects.” Mr. Borrer mentions (Birds of Sussex, 
p- 10,} that he had himself seen this bird at 
Swaysland’s shop, in the flesh. 
Another, to the right, is animmature male; but 
like the mature male, it has the lower feathers on 
the thigh bright red. It was shot at Hooe, near 
Bexhill, on the 15th April, 1899, by George 
Sargent, a butcher who then lived there, but 
afterwards moved to Pevensey. It was stuffed by 
Bristow and presented to the Museum in 1908 by 
Mr, P. E. Coombe. 
The third, to the left of the case, is an adult 
female, which was killed at Ashford in Kent on the 
9th or 10th June, 1908 by Butler, a keeper there. 
It was brought in to Bristow’s, where Dr. Ticehurst, 
of St. Leonards, saw it on the 11th in the flesh and 
quite fresh. It was presented by Mr. D. Hack 
in 1908. 
These birds are exceedingly rare visitors to 
Britain, from the south-east of Europe, where they 
nest (often in companies of three or four pairs), 
appropriating the nests of rooks. Qn the 18th April, 
1909, I saw three of these birds hunting along the 
northern extension of Mons Sacer (of plebeian fame), 
just outside Rome. So far as I could ascertain their 
quarry consisted of the lizards which abound there. 
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Case 330. 
The migrations of this bird, whick breeds 
throughout the Arctic regions of the old world, takes 
it abundantly southward from China through to 
Spain. Yet it so rarely swerves across the North 
Sea to accompany the hosts of migrants to our 
island, that only two or three specimens have yet 
been obtained in Britain, of which ours was the 
first. It was caught in a bird net near Brighton, 
March 13th, 1884, and brought to Swaysland (a bird- 
stuffer in Queen’s Road) from whom it was purchased 
by the late Mr. Monk. 
