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usually large fruit one of these is in my own 

 cabinet. A few years since a chatterer was killed 

 at Beeding, one at Newhaven, and another near 

 Shoreham by a person of the name of Dyer. 

 There is also a specimen in the Chichester mu- 

 seum which was shot in that neighbourhood. 



During the present winter, 1849-50, several ex- 

 amples of the waxwing have appeared in Sussex. 

 It has been met with on Lewes Levels and at 

 Siddlesham. Mr. Spencer Dickins informs me 

 that two were shot at Coolhurst early in January, 

 another occurred at Storrington, and Mr. Walter 

 Burrell has favoured me with a notice of two hav- 

 ing been killed at West Grinstead about the same 

 time. 



On the 22nd of January I received an example 

 from the Rev. W. Barlee of West Chiltington, 

 which had been shot on the previous day by his 

 son while it was in the act of devouring the berries 

 of a haw tree in the grounds of the Rectory. 



Family MOTACILLID.E. 



WHITE WAGTAIL, Motacilla alba. An occa- 

 sional summer visitor, but from its close resem- 

 blance to the pied wagtail, frequently escapes 

 notice, Mr. Yarrell has enumerated some of their 



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