ay) 
was obtained by Mr. Allan Cooper at Norton, Bishop- 
stone, Sussex, in April, 1881, by whom it was 
presented to the Museum. 
See ‘ Rough Notes,” Vol. II., Plate 2. 
GYRFALCON. 
Case 347. 
This is especially noteworthy as being probably 
the only mature specimen of this fine falcon which 
has ever been obtained in Great Britain. It was 
shot at Mayfield by R. C. P. Durrant, in January, 
1845, during severe weather, while in the act of 
devouring a pigeon on the top of a wheatstack. 
{Borrer Collection). It was re-stuffed by Cullingford 
of Durham in 1903. But one other bird of this 
species, and that immature, is known to have 
occured in Britain. 
“ Birds of Sussex,” p. 5 and frontispiece, Howard Saunders’ 
‘‘ Manual,” p. 334. 
hE E se ii DERN: 
Case 348. 
This species formerly nested in England, but is 
now a rare visitor only, 
The specimen to the left is a young male, 
captured alive in a stable at Hove on the morning of 
September 3rd, 1894. Some of the extraordinary 
attitudes assumed by this bird after its capture are 
described in the Zoologist for 1894, p. 454, and it is 
stuffed in one such attitude. It was presented by 
Mr. Henry Willett. 
The bird in the middle was shot by Lord North 
in September, 1845 at Sandwich, Kent. It was 
presented by Mr. RK. Eden Dickson in January, 1908, 
It has been re-stuffed in another attitude assumed 
by the first mentioned bird, stretching its long neck 
and beak down to the ground. 
Towards the right is a magnificent adult male, 
which was caught by a sheep-dog in a reedy ditch, 
