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come, it is sometimes in small though scattered 
flocks. Thus three were shot in the Ashburnham 
district in June 1905, one of which is here. It is 
an adult male, shot June 5th at Burwash, by a man 
named Carley. He saw three together and thought 
they were Kingfishers. 
Bristow, the St. Leonards naturalist, saw one 
at Brightling about the same time but failed to shoot 
it. It flew out of a hedge in a high wind and was 
carried away, so that he could not find it again. 
Another was shot at Dallington a few days earlier 
(May 31st) and is now in Mr. Fleetwood’s Ashburnham 
collection. Ours was presented to the Museum in 
1908 by Mr. J. Eardley Hall, and is seated on the 
root projecting from the face of the sand. 
The other bird was shot at Icklesham, Sussex, 
in August 1836, and comes from the Borrer Collection 
(see ‘ Birds of Sussex” p. 171). It was mounted by 
Mr. Martin of Hastings, and passed into Mr. Ellman’s 
collection, from which it was acquired by Mr. Borrer. 
GOLDEN ORIOLE. 
Case 348. 
These rare and strikinyly plumaged birds have 
a wonderful power of hiding themselves from obser- 
vation. But they are rare enough in England to be 
the object of everyone who can hold a gun, when 
once they have been seen ; so that very few survive 
to nest here, as they would doubtless do more 
frequently if left in peace. 
The less brilliant specimens are adult females, 
The one to the left was obtained at Oving (about 3 
miles south-east of Chichester) in April, 1870, 
having been picked up in a dying condition by a boy 
on the roadside, and was presented to the Museum 
by Mr. P. E. Coombe in 1903. That perching in the 
middle of the case was killed by a eatin Kemptown, 
Brighton, June 5th 1907, and was given by Mr. 
Swaysland. 
