78 THE BIRDS OF SUSSEX. 



On November 5tli; 1843, a specimen was brought to a 

 Brighton birdstufFer by a little girl, who said she had found 

 it dead in a garden close by ; this was a very handsome male. 

 A female was caught alive in December 1846, in a shrubbery 

 at Lancing, with the lantern and bell. 



Early in November 1852^ a specimen was killed with a 

 stone near Worthing, and on the lOtli of the same month in 

 1854, a male was found dead at Shoreham. These three 

 specimens are now in my possession. 



In March 1854, Mr. Dennis informed me that a Fire-crest 

 had been brought to him which had flown into a window of 

 a cottage at Seaford. It was put into a cage, but was very 

 restless, and lived only a day. 



In the ' Zoologist' Mr. Ellman writes that he shot a Fire- 

 crest on the 30th of March, 1849, in the garden of Mr. 

 Honysett at Rye (p. 2418), and Mr. Potter records (on 

 p. 2766) that a friend of his, while walking under some fir- 

 trees overhanging a pond in the neighbourhood of Lewes, 

 caught one in his hand as it was running on a fence in the 

 manner of the Common Wren, January 30th, 1850. 



In p. 8446 of the volume for 1863, a Fire-crested Wren is 

 recorded, which was captured on board a collier lying ofl" 

 St. Leonards-on-Sea, on the 29th of December of that year. 

 This Avas about a mile from the shore. In p. 9468 of that 

 journal for 1865, one is stated to have been obtained near 

 Plumpton by Mr. Swaysland on the 24th of December in 

 the year before. In the volume of the ' Zoologist ' for 1869 

 (p. 1513) one is recorded, without date, as having been 

 obtained near Brighton, and in that for 1858 (p. 225) it is 

 stated that one was caught on the 4tli of April while flutter- 

 ing against a window in North Street in that town ; and on 

 the same page two more specimens are recorded as having 

 been killed near St. Leonards-on-Sea, and oft'ered to Mr. 

 J. H. Gurney, who added one of them to his collection. 



