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subject 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 

 Norfolk, 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 Walden, I find 

 that Mr. Adams of Gnorlestone in Norfolk has in his col- 

 lection a Woodchat shot by himself; and a few years 

 ago, Mr. Leadbeater received a specimen which had been 

 killed in Yorkshire. Dr. Hastings, in his Illustrations of 

 the Natural History of Worcestershire, says, the Wood- 

 chat is stated by Mrs. Perrot to have appeared in the 

 neighbourhood of Evesham. Lastly, I may mention that 

 E. H. Rodd Esq. of Penzance, in a communication read 

 before the Royal Institute of Cornwall in 1840, referred 

 to a male specimen of this rare bird which had been taken 

 in a fishing boat at Scilly. 



* Vol. iv. p. 341. 



