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busli overhanging a stream, at the end of Warnham Mill 

 Pond. The bird (well known to him) was on the nest, and 

 flew off when he approached it. The nest had five eggs in it. 

 One of them was shewn to the Naturalist, Mr. Hall, who 

 unhesitatingly pronounced it to be that of the Redwing." 

 As Mr. Hall is now in America, I have had no opportunity 

 of obtaining further information on the subject. 



A Great Bustard was shot on Pett Level on the 6tli of 

 January, 1891, by Charles Cooke, and sold by him to Mr. E. 

 Vidler, of Havelock Road, Hastings. It was a female, and 

 in good condition, and weighed 7 lbs. 10 oz., the crop con- 

 taining dry grass. It is somewhat remarkable that of seven 

 Great Bustards obtained in various counties between the 

 9th of December, 1890, and the 5th of February, 1891, all 

 should have been females. See ^ Zoologist,^ 1891, pp. 104- 

 105. 



The extremely severe frost of the winter of 1890-91, 

 which, with a very slight break or two, lasted from the 

 beginning of December to the middle of January, though it 

 ])rouglit an unusually large number of Ducks and Geese, as 

 well as of the three species of Swan, all along the coast, 

 was not productive of many really rare species. Those 

 principally worthy of notice among this class were a 

 specimen of the Pink-footed Goose, mentioned in the fore- 

 going pages, a considerable number of Smews, a few Shell- 

 Ducks, and a remarkable fine male Goosander, which was 

 shot on the "Western Rother in West Harting, and recorded 

 by the Rev. H. D. Gordon in the ^Zoologist,' p. 117, 1891. 

 An unusually large number of the Common Bittern also 

 occurred in various parts of the county, one of which was 

 shot as it rose from a bed of cabbages in the western part of 

 the town of Brighton. A fully mature specimen of the 

 Little Gull was shot at Shoreham. Several Shore Larks 

 were obtained on the coast near Brighton, of which five or 

 six were taken to Messrs. Pratt, who also received five 

 Lapland Buntings and a large number of Snow Buntings and 

 Bramhlings. 



