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appear to be bewildered by the sudden light and 
noise, and can be easily caught. 
In his “ Author’s Apology,” prefixed to The 
Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan says (in about 
1670) 
How does the fowler seek to catch the game 
By divers means ? all which one cannot name ; 
His gun, his nets, his lime-twigs, /zght and bell, 
While sheltering from a shower under a hedge 
in the high road, on my way from West Grinstead 
Station i see Mr. Borrer of Cowfold, I saw one of 
these birds which came within a couple of feet of 
me, passing rapidly from twig to twig. 
This case was designed for the late Mr. Monk, 
but these birds whose history is known, have been 
substituted for Mr. Monk’s specimens, whose history 
has been lost. 
PIED WAGTAIL.—({Auvrumy). 
Case 359. 
For a very short time in the autumn this com- 
mon species sometimes assumes a canary coloured 
tint on the light parts of the neck and head. Two 
specimens in this plumage are here shewn, one of 
which (an immature bird) was obtained by Mr, Booth, 
but no record has been found shewing where or when. 
The other, an adult, was shot by Mr. A. F. Griffith 
on the river bank near Old Shoreham, November 8th, 
1873, and by him given to the collection. 
BALEEONS (CRAKE. 
Case 360. 
A very rare British bird. The left hand speci- 
men is from the Borrer Collection, It was obtained 
in Lincolnshire. The other was caught in a bird 
net on the Downs above Brighton, near the Ditchling 
Road, September 2nd, 1894, and was purchased and 
presented by Mr. Henry Willett. 
