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the Wiltshire plains and the Sussex Downs. They 
prefer the open, hedgeless country, such as Plumpton 
Plain in Sussex, and Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, 
which though hilly, yet being bare of woods were 
known as “ plain” in distinction to the Weald (or 
weod) below, where forest was almost continuous. 
Though long since banished from Sussex as a 
resident, yet an occasional migrant visits us, such as 
this one, a female, which was shot at dusk on 
January 12th, 1876 at Ripe, near Firle, Sussex by 
Mr. Horace Tuppen of Chalvington Manor, Sussex. 
It flew some distance and fell ina wood where it was 
picked up the next day and sold (for 2/6) to Mr. 
Bates, the birdstuffer of Eastbourne, by whom it was 
sold to the late Mr. Monk of Lewes. 
‘‘ Birds of Sussex,’ p. 200. 
COMMON DOTTERELL.—Avtumy. 
These specimens, one adult and one immature 
(no doubt a bird of the year), were shot near New- 
haven, September ist, 1902, by Mr. P. A. Willett of 
Brighton, and by him given to the collection. 
They nest on the tops of a few high mountains 
in the north of England and Scotland, as well as in 
the northern parts of Europe and Asia. They arrive 
on our Downs regularly on migration both in the 
spring and autumn. 
NIGHT HERON. 
This bird is a young female. It was shot in 
Romney Marsh, near Lydd, by a local huckster 
named Butler, October 30th, 1906. It was stuffed by 
Bristow at St. Leonards, and given to the Museum 
in 1908 by Mr. D. Hack. 
The adult bird has a very different grey plumage. 
But either plumage enables the bird to escape 
observation in its native swamps. 
