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28th, 1901, in a turnip field at Pagham, near 
Chichester, by Mr. Scott, the farmer there. It 
weighed 11lb 140z, It was bought in the flesh by 
Mr. P. E. Coombe, by whom it was presented to 
this collection in 1903. 
The home of the species is in the southern parts 
of Europe, especially in Spain and the south of 
France, where it nests considerable numbers. 
RUDDY SHELDRAKE. 
Case 367. 
This beautiful species is a very rare visitor to 
.England from the south. The smaller specimen in 
.the case is a female, obtained September 12th, 1890, 
‘by the late Rev. H, D. Gordon at Harting, in the 
eatreme west of Sussex, and presented to this 
Museum by his widow on his death in 1897. 
(See ‘ Zoologist,’ 1890 p., 395.) 
The larger bird is a drake, one of a pair which 
were seen and shot at by a man named Southerden 
at Jury’s Gap, Lydd (just across the Sussex 
‘boundary in Kent), on November 15th, 1905. He 
-secured the duck; but this bird, the drake, flew a 
quarter of a mile or so further on and he lost it. 
However it was picked up a week later, dead, lying 
in a pool of water, by a soldier named Standen, 
who brought it to Bristow, the bird stuffer at 
St. Leonards. It was bought of Bristow and 
presented to the Museum in 1908 by Mr. E. Robinson. 
Among the birds awaiting casing are the following :— 
SEA EAGLE. 
An immature bird from the Borrer Collection, 
was shot at Weesdale Voe, on the Isle of Greena, 
. Shetland, September, 1850, 
Another, shot near Lancing, Sussex, by Starley 
of the Bridge Inn, Shoreham, November 19th, 1863. 
Wilberforce Collection, Presented in 1903. 
