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first that it was a young Yellowhammer, buoyant though the flight had been; 
its streaked rump then attracted my attention, and also the arrangement of the 
white on the tail feathers, and, taking these peculiarities in conjunction with 
the fact that it had a very distinct broad yellow eye-stripe, I finally decided to 
stuff it. I then took it to the British Museum, where it was identified by 
Dr. Bowdler Sharpe, and afterwards by Mr. Howard Saunders, who exhibited 
it with the Stonechat at the British Ornithologists’ Club. The bird is now in 
the Eastbourne Museum. 
As regards the killing of these rare migrants, I consider it justifiable. 
They are abnormal wanderers, which would never settle in England, and it 
seems far better that they should be carefully preserved for the benefit of 
those who would otherwise never see them, rather than be observed through 
glasses by one individual for the space of perhaps half an hour at the outside. 
On the whole, the first three weeks in September seem the best time for 
the bushes, but the learned disagree concerning the most favourable wind. 
The majority, I believe, vote for a nor-wester with drizzling rain; but it 
appears more probable that the arrival or non-arrival of the birds depends 
upon the direction of the wind at the point whence they start, rather than on 
what is blowing along the Norfolk coast. 
The following list of birds obtained in the bushes may, though doubtless 
incomplete, prove interesting and perhaps encouraging to those who have 
often, like the writer, tramped through them from start to finish without 
indulging in a single shot. 
List oF Brrps. 
Barred Warbler. Pallas’s Willow-Warbler. 
Icterine Warbler. Aquatic Warbler. 
Bluethroat. Yellow-browed Warbler. 
Ortolan. Ring-Ouzel. 
Shore-Lark. Wryneck. 
Nightjar. Green Woodpecker. 
Pied Flycatcher. Richard’s Pipit. 
Lapland Bunting. Red-breasted Flycatcher. 
Great Grey Shrike. Yellow-breasted Bunting. 
Landrail. 
