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brownish yellow dress, I suppose a young bird. I 
heard it again the same evening and the next day in 
the trees above the house, but could never see it 
again. A day or two afterwards my son saw a small 
flock of birds fly over the river Brathay just where 
it widens out into the Windermere Lake, which must 
from his description have been Two-barred Crossbills. 
They passed close by his boat, as he was fishing. 
ROSE-COLOURED PASTOR. 
An adult male, one of two which were shot from 
the back of a sheep near Brighton, August 20th, 
1870, comes from the Borrer Collection. 
See ‘‘ Birds of Sussex, p. 143. 
Another, stuffed with extended wings, is also 
an adult male, shot on Romney Marsh near Apple- 
dore, Kent, on the 4th June, 1900. It was presented 
by Mr. D. Hack. 
ROLLER. 
Shot at Burnham, Norfolk, September, 1847. 
(From the Borrer Collection), stuffed flying. 
Another from the Monk Collection. A fine 
mate, killed at Isfield, near Lewes, on June 12th, 
1873. It was purchased by Mr. Rh. R. McQueen of 
Chailey for half a crown, and by him given to 
Mr. Monk. 
‘* Birds of Sussex,” p. 169. 
GREAT BUSTARD. 
Within the memory of our fathers this, the 
largest of our indigenous game birds, used to roam 
in droves over the wide bare expanses cf heath and 
sand on the borders of Norfolk and Suffolk, until 
these wastes were cut up with the long plantations 
which serve to break the wind and protect the light 
soil of the fields there from being blown away. 
Two or three generations earlier, they abounded on 
