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ject now, several instances having occurred in which this 

 bird has been obtained. 



One of the earliest specimens recorded as British is that 

 noticed by the Rev. Gilbert White in his 25th letter to 

 Thomas Pennant, dated Selborne, August 30th, 1769. 



In the British Museum there is a specimen of the Wood- 

 chat, a young male, which formerly belonged to the mu- 

 seum of Dr. Leach, and is labelled as having been killed 

 in Kent. 



In a communication to the Magazine of Natural His- 

 tory* on the British species of Shrikes, by Mr. J. D. Hoy, 

 who is devoted to the study of birds and their habits, that 

 gentleman mentions one instance of the Woodchat being 

 killed near Canterbury, that came to his knowledge, and 

 another killed in the neighbourhood of Swaffham in Nor- 

 folk, which last bird was in the collection of the late Rev. 

 Robert Hammond. In a collection of birds formerly at 

 Cambridge, which belonged to the Rev. Francis Henson, 

 were a male and female Woodchat, both of which were 

 said to have been killed in Suffolk. From the communi- 

 cation of Joseph Clarke, Esq., of Saffron Wai den, I find 

 that Mr. Adams, of Gorlestone in Norfolk, has in his col- 

 lection a Woodchat shot by himself ; it is also included by 

 Messrs. Gurney and Fisher in their catalogue of the birds 

 of Norfolk ; and a few years ago, Mr. Leadbeater re- 

 ceived a specimen which had been killed in Yorkshire. 

 Dr. Hastings, in his Illustrations of the Natural History 

 of Worcestershire, says, the Woodchat is stated by Mrs. 

 Perrot to have appeared in the neighbourhood of Evesham. 

 Lastly, I may mention that E. H. Rodd, Esq., of Pen- 

 zance, in communications read before the Royal Institute 

 of Cornwall, has referred to two specimens of this rare 

 bird, which had been taken at Scilly. 

 * Vol. iv. p. 341. 



