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still this species must be considered as compa- 

 ratively sparingly distributed throughout this part 

 of the county during the spring and summer 

 months. At the same season I have repeatedly 

 examined other districts, and from my own obser- 

 vation, and the concurrent testimony of local ob- 

 servers on whom I knew I could rely, I conclude 

 that this bird is then much less numerous in all 

 parts of this county than in the north of England. 

 During the months of May, June and July I 

 have occasionally found it among the parks and 

 plantations situated on the sandstone formation 

 between the weald and the Downs ; also among 

 the beech woods of the latter, and in the neigh- 

 bourhood of the heathery commons immediately 

 to the north of that range of hills. They are, 

 however, more numerous on the coast to the east 

 of Brighton than in some other districts of Sussex 

 at this season ; although even there they do not 

 appear to congregate to such a degree as in simi- 

 lar situations in other parts of England, and they 

 are certainly less abundant on those chalk preci- 

 pices, which, commencing at Kemp-town, termi- 

 nate at Beachy Head, than among the grey cliffs 

 of the wealden rock which lie to the eastward of 

 Hastings : but as autumn draws near their num- 

 bers gradually increase in all parts of the county, 

 and at the very period when Mr. Waterton 



