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RING OUSEL, Turdus torquatus. A passing 

 visitor in spring and autumn ; halting for a few 

 days among the juniper and holly bushes on our 

 elevated commons and highest Downs. 



GOLDEN ORIOLE, Oriolus galbula. A summer 

 straggler of rare occurrence. Has been shot at 

 Bexhill, and twice killed in the month of May, 

 near Newhaven; and two examples are in the 

 possession of Mr. W. Borrer, which were shot at 

 ALfriston, about four miles from the last-named 

 port, so that there seems to be something pecu- 

 liarly attractive to this bird in that neighbourhood. 



Family SYLVIAD.E. 



HEDGE ACCENTOR or HEDGE SPARROW, Accen- 

 tor modularis. Common everywhere. 



REDBREAST or ROBIN, Erythaca rubecula. As 

 elsewhere, a well-known and general favourite. 



REDSTART or FIRETAIL, Ph&nicura ruticilla. 

 The very partial distribution of this bird is remark- 

 able. I never could discover it in any part of the 

 weald of West Sussex. It is even exceedingly 

 rare to the south of that region on the richer soil 

 of the lower green sandstone, in the neighbourhood 

 of Midhurst, Petworth, and Pulborough, to the 

 north of the Rother, which is here a tributary to 

 the Arun: but on the long belt of ferruginous 



