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a printed notice requesting sportsmen generally to refrain from shooting 

 them for a season or two. Their greatest enemies, however, proved to 

 be foxes, and Mr. Bateman has had the mortification of seeing his Tinamus 

 gradually being exterminated. A few are still left in the neighbouring 

 parishes, and these were increased in the spring of 1888 by eleven more 

 birds which were turned out of Mr. Bateman's aviary. The bird mtich 

 resembles a hen Pheasant, with the absence of the tail ; it is capital eating 

 and the flesh is quite white. Its food is varied ; consisting of field mice, 

 sparrows, corn, grass-seeds, thistle-tops, and insects of all kinds. The eggs 

 are about the size of a domestic hen's, and much resemble a purple plum 

 with the bloom rubbed off. The nest consists merely of a few grass 

 straws in a standing crop of barley. For further particulars, see the 

 Essex Naturalist, ii. pp. 102 and 206, and the Field, Feb. 23, 1884, Sept. 

 12, 18S5, and April 14th, 1888.]. 



Great Snipe (p. 243). 



Mr. Harting writes me: "About twenty years ago — I think in September, 

 i86g — I was shown by Mr, Hughes, of Brentwood, a good specimen which he 

 had just shot at Stanford Rivers. 



Prof. Newton has favoured me with the following memorandum by his brother, Sir Edward 

 Newton. I am quite unable to suggest the species to which this'bird belonged. 



" On the 31st of May, 18S3, about 3.30 p.m., when crossing the bridge near the stables at 

 Audley End, I saw what I thought was a Turtle Dove, on a bough hanging over the water. Carl 

 Brochner was with me and I called his attention to it. He said it had a crest, but I did not see 

 the crest. It flew up from the bough as if hawking a fly (there were a great many May-flies over 

 the water), as Starlings and other birds were doing, and returned to its perch. I then saw that it 

 was not, as I had supposed, a Turtle Dove. As it flew up, it appeared to me to have a forked 

 tail. Brochner said it was a Jay, but it certainly was not. Had I been in America, I should have 

 said It was one of the Tyrant Flycatchers. The bird was about the size of a Turtle Dove, and'ot 

 a uniform dirty cream-colour, without any Striking markings. 



"[Sd.l E. N. 

 " Magdalene Coll. 

 " 4th June. 1583.'' 



