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other three specimens were shot at Cley-by-the-Sea 
(Norfolk) during the same winter. 
ORTOLAN BUNTING. 
Case 337. 
Though common enough on the other side of 
the Channel, the Ortolan rarely crosses over into 
Britain, except as a captive, fattened for the epicure’s 
table. The uppermost bird and that in the bottom 
right hand corner are two specimens from the Borrer 
Collection ; one, an adult male in summer plumage, 
caught with birdlime on the Dyke Road in 1870; 
the other, a female, obtained between brighton and 
Lewes in February, 1877. (See “ Birds of Sussex,,’ 
p. 121). 
The two other birds in the case were acquired 
by purchase and were both obtained in Sussex in 
1898, the female at Castle Hill, near Rottingdean, 
on April 21, and the male on the brickfields to the 
east of Eastbourne on June 29. 
WOODCHAT SHRIKE. 
Case 338. 
Of the two birds in this case one is an adult 
male, shot by the late Mr. Henry Pratt, jr., F.R.A.S., 
at Preston, near Brighton on May 4th, 1866. When 
first he noticed it, it was on the ground, then it flew 
into a thornbush where he shot it. The stomach 
contained portions of beetles and other insects. This 
bird was acquired by Bishop Wilberforce (of Win- 
chester), and presented to this collection in 1903 by 
his son, Mr. I. G. Wilberforce. 
(See Borrer’s “Birds of Sussex,” p. 39) 
The other, near the bottom left hand corner, 
which comes from the Borrer Collection, is also an 
adult male. It was shot near Fairlight Church, 
Sussex, July 29th, 1892. 
