66 BIRDS OF CHESHIRE. 
Hilbre. Brockholes states that he has seen eggs from 
that locality} and Mr. A. O. Walker found three nests 
there on May 24th, 1858.2. When on Hilbre in May 
1894, we saw several pairs of nesting birds on the edge 
of the low sandstone clifis. 
FAMILY ORIOLID®. 
GOLDEN ORIOLE. 
ORIOLUS GALBULA, Linnzus. 
There are only two recorded instances of the occur- 
rence of the Golden Oriole in Cheshire. A male was 
obtained in May 1830, and was preserved in the collec- 
tion of the Manchester Natural History Society. In 
the late fifties a female was shot at Styal, where it was 
consorting with a number of Thrushes and about half 
a dozen birds of its own species. It is now in the 
collection of Mr. Bulkeley Allen of Bowdon. 
FAMILY LANITIDA. 
GREAT GREY SHRIKE. 
LANIUS EXCUBITOR, Linnzeus. 
The Great Grey Shrike has occasionally visited 
Cheshire during the autumn and winter months. The 
earliest record we have refers to one in the collection 
of the Manchester Natural History Society, which was 
shot by J. Moore at Sale.® Byerley, on the authority 
1 Brockholes, op. cit. p. 7. 2 Dobie, op. cit. p. 294. 
3 Aves Britannice: a Systematic Catalogue of British Birds, p.7. 1836. 
4 Minute-Book of the Manchester Natural History Club (ms.), Sept. 28, 
1863, p. 165. ‘Redshank,’ Manchester City News, July 24, 1875. 
5 J. Blackwall, Loudon’s Magazine of Natural History, vol. ii. 
p. 274. 1829: 
