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coast of the Channel to Calais. Yet the number of 
authenticated specimens taken in England is very 
small. 
Our bird is an adult male, shot by Bristow, the 
St. Leonards birdstuffer, in a brick pit near West 
St. Leonards Station, September 12th, 1906. He 
fouud it in some brambles, where its very harsh note 
attracted his attention. It was given to the Museum 
in 1908 by Mr. A. F. Griffith. 
Another adult male was shot in the same locality 
by Mr. M. G. Nicoll (now of the Ghizeh Museum, 
Lower Egypt) a fortnight later, on the 26th 
September, 1906, which is in his own collection. 
ICTERINE WARBLER. 
A very rare strageler to our islands is this bird; 
though common on the other side of the Channel, 
nesting as it does commonly throughout Europe, 
almost, if not quite, up to the Arctic circle. Occasion- 
ally a stray bird, from Norway or Sweden probably, 
accompanies the swarms of other Warblers which 
strike the north coast of Norfolk each autumn after 
crossing the North Sea. Its broader bill distin- 
cuishes it most readily at first sight from the Willow 
Warbler group. 
This bird, which is an adult male, was shot on 
May 15th, 1902, at Crockham Hill, Edenbridge, by 
Mr. E. Southon, a builder there. It was preserved 
by Bristow and given to the Museum in 1908 by 
Mie ACh Gecittuth. 
BOHEMIAN WAXWING. 
Shot in a garden at Newtimber, Sussex, while 
feeding on hawthorn berries in January, 1848. as 
recorded by Mr. Knox in his ‘“ Ornithological 
fambles,” p. 202.. It was acquired by the late 
Bishop of Winchester and presented to the Museum 
in 1903 by his son, Mr. R. G. Wilberforce. 
One shot by Mr. Dawson Borrer near Kelso, 
