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WILSON’S PETREL. 
Case 321. 
This long-legged Petrel, though abundant in 
the South Atlantic and in the West Indies, wanders 
but rarely to our coasts, though it was seen in abun- 
dance on one occasion, in 1838, off the Cornish coast 
by the late Mr. Gould. 
Our bird was obtained in 1866 by a man named 
Whiteley, of Rye, Sussex, and purchased by the late 
Mr. Borrer, from Bristow, a birdstuffer at St. 
Leonard’s, in 1891. 
WATER PIPIT, 
Case 323, 
The pale specimen, which was shot by a 
Brighton College boy on the shingle banks between 
Shoreham Harbour and Brighton, in the winter of 
1859-60, was the first British specimen recognised 
of this rare species. It was secured by the late 
Bishop Wilberforce (of Winchester) in 1864, and 
presented to this collection by his son, Mr. 
R. G, Wilberforce, in 1903. Another was obtained 
about the same time at Worthing. 
The other two are also Sussex specimens, from 
the Borrer collection, one shot at Old Shoreham, 
August, 1868, and the other at Shoreham, March 
9th, 1869. 
‘« Birds of Sussex,” p. 103. 
TAWNY PIPIT. 
Case 326. 
This pale-coloured Pipit is a regular visitor to 
Central Europe, breeding amongst the sand dunes and 
dry districts of the continent and retiring southward 
for the winter. Though it breeds freely in the 
