ix, 
seen ruffs in numbers nesting) and cbtained Harriers and 
other birds from the fens, and the last of the old Englisk 
breed of bustards from the Lakenheath district as recorded 
not only in his Note, but also by Yarrell & Howard Saunders. 
Or he would tell with glee how he shot the Eared Grebe in 
its summer plumage near Shoreham, or bought a Broad- 
billed Sandpiper out of a bunch of newly killed Dunlin at 
the same place. Or how he secured some, and failed to 
secure others, of the rare birds obtained from time to time 
in the County and especially of his Gyrfalcon, the only 
mature British specimen known. 
His knowledge of the smaller mammals of the County 
and their habits was very wide and minute and every 
specimen in his collection had its own special history. 
He was a keen sportsman, impatient of any slackness in a 
day’s shooting. And he was a close observer of live birds 
and mammals, with the faculty, most valuable to one fond 
of natural history, of sitting still. Those who have watched 
the Bank Voles at their ease in the day time will know 
what this means when they realize that one day, sitting and 
watching them by his favourite pond at Brookhill, two of 
these easily scared creatures were playing one on each of 
his feet. 
He would tell of the times, before the advent of 
railways, when, like all his brother magistrates, he had to 
ride to Lewes or elsewhere to attend the Assizes, and the 
way to Brighton was on horseback over the Downs by 
Truleigh Hill, and when the shooting on Henfield Common 
was shooting indeed. 
In 1892 he published his book on the Birds of Sussex, 
in which he brought together not only earlier notices of 
rarities observed by Mr. Knox and other ornithologists 
who had preceded him in Sussex, but also a vast number of 
notes of hisown. But it should be observed that a chron- 
icler is still needed for the migration of birds in and through 
Sussex, and that our County affords excellent opportunities 
for this to anyone in whom knowledge of birds is combined 
with sufficient spare time. 
He died at Brookhill in October, 1898. His collection 
of British Mammals was presented to Brighton in 1gor, asa 
memorial of so noted a Sussex naturalist, by his nephew, 
Mr. J. Eardley Hall, of Barrow Hill, and is exhibited in 
Case 53 in the Zoological Gallery (Room IX.) at the Church 
Street Museum. His collection of British Birds (except 
the Great Bustard) was purchased in the same year and 
the chief gems are to be seen at this Museum. 
As mentioned above, the collection of the late 
