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The other two are adult males. That to the 
right was shot by Mr. Newman at Charleston, on the 
Cuckmere River, Sussex, in May, 1833, and comes 
from the Borrer Collection. 
The remaining specimen comes from the collec- 
tion of the late Bishop Wilberforce (of Oxford) and 
was given to the Museum by his son, Mr, R, G. 
Wilberforce, in 1903. It is one ofa pair which were 
seen in the garden of Preston Place (just outside 
Brighton), on May 4th, 1866, by the late Mr. Henry 
Pratt, who had just killed the Woodchat Shrike now 
in this collection. His brother, Mr. John Pratt, 
after some hunting succeeded in shooting the male 
bird, but the hen got clear away. There must have 
been a considerable immigration of the species at 
that time, one having been observed at St. Just in 
Cornwall, on April 26th, another near Halesworth, a 
female, early in May; yet another was found dead, 
a cock bird, at East Grinstead, Sussex, on May 14th, 
and a pair were killed at Sidlesham, near Chichester, 
May 5th. 
On April 25th, 1909, I saw a flock of eight of 
these glorious birds (seven cocks and one hen) in the 
woods near Camaldoli, just outside Naples. For 
half an hour or so some or others of them were in 
full view, flitting about and resting on their migra- 
tion in the brilliant sun. I fear that few of them 
escaped the innumerable ‘‘ sportsmen ” who in Italy 
shoot every bird, however small, which comes within 
sight, for the cooking pot. 
HOOROE: 
Case 344, 
The right hand specimen (with its crest 
lowered) was obtained by the late Mr Booth with 
Mr. Robinson on his farm at Saddlescombe, near 
Poynings, Sussex, on the 24th April, 1882. It was 
found on a bare ploughed field in a high wind. 
The left hand specimen (with its crest raised) 
