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GREAT GREY SHRIKE. 
Case 335. 
The bird to the left was shot by Mrs. Beard at 
Heathfield Park, Sussex, March 5th, 1888. ‘It was 
given by Mr. H. Langton. | 
Another is represented as reaching up to a Wren, 
which it has impaled on a thorn, from which habit 
towards insects and small birds this species, with its 
commoner congener, the Red-backed Shrike, derives 
its name of Butcher Bird. 
This bird was presented by Mr. Frederick Smith, 
of Loddington, near Maidstone, who shot it there on 
February 21st, 1898. It was sitting.very upright on 
the top branch of a tall oak tree. 
The third bird, flying, was shot in December, 
1839, on Beeding Level, near Bramber Castle, Sussex. 
It was wounded only, and on tke man going to cap- 
ture it, it bit him severely. This specimen comes 
from the Borrer Collection. 
‘* Birds of Sussex,” p. 36. 
LAPLAND BUNTING. 
Case 336. 
This rare visitor has been obtained most often 
in Norfolk and Sussex. The severe winter of 1900-1 
brought them over in considerable numbers to the 
former county, when several were also observed in 
Sussex. Two of the specimens in the case (the 
front one in the middle of the case and the 
back one to the left) were caught November 5th, 
1890, on the Downs, near Brighton, The male and 
female in summer plumage were obtained alive near 
Yarmovth (Norfolk) the same autumn, and kept in 
an aviary till the following spring. The large bird 
in the bottom right hand corner is a male from the 
Borrer Collection, It was caught in a bird net on 
the Downs, near Brighton, Sept. 30th, 1844. The 
