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but is decidedly less numerous in Sussex than 

 many other counties nearer the metropolis. Was 

 formerly not unusual in the neighbourhood of 

 Pevensey, but is now rare, most of the reed-beds 

 having been removed to admit of the water run- 

 ning freely through the dykes. 



A male and female in my collection were ob- 

 tained near the ruins of Amberley Castle. A pair 

 were also shot at Fishbourne, near Chichester, by 

 a retired military Serjeant of the name of Carter ; 

 a very successful gunner, who has had the good 

 fortune to meet with some of our rarest birds 

 in that neighbourhood. 



Family AMPELID^E. 



BOHEMIAN WAX-WING, or Chatterer. Boniby- 

 cilla garrula. Of rare occurrence in Sussex, and 

 only during very severe snow and frost. In 

 January, 1848, two of these birds were shot in 

 a garden at Newtimber, feeding on the berries of 

 a red haw tree a variety of the whitethorn which 

 produces pink or apple-like blossoms and un- 

 usually large fruit one of these is in my own ca- 

 binet. 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. 



