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first that it was a young Yellowhammer, buoyant though the flight had been ; 

 its streaked rump then attracted my attention, and also the arrangement of the 

 white on the tail feathers, and, taking these peculiarities in conjunction with 

 the fact that it had a very distinct broad yellow eye-stripe, I finally decided to 

 stuff it. I then took it to the British Museum, where it was identified by 

 Dr. Bowdler Sharpe, and afterwards by Mr. Howard Saunders, who exhibited 

 it with the Stonechat at the British Ornithologists' Club. The bird is now in 

 the Eastbourne Museum. 



As regards the killing of these rare migrants, I consider it justifiable. 

 They are abnormal wanderers, which would never settle in England, and it 

 seems far better that they should be carefully preserved for the benefit of 

 those who would otherwise never see them, rather than be observed through 

 glasses by one individual for the space of perhaps half an hour at the outside. 



On the whole, the first three weeks in September seem the best time for 

 the bushes, but the learned disagree concerning the most favourable wind. 

 The majority, I believe, vote for a nor-wester with drizzling rain ; but it 

 appears more probable that the arrival or non-arrival of the birds depends 

 upon the direction of the wind at the point whence they start, rather than on 

 what is blowing along the Norfolk coast. 



The following list of birds obtained in the bushes may, though doubtless 

 incomplete, prove interesting and perhaps encouraging to those who have 

 often, like the writer, tramped through them from start to finish without 

 indulging in a single shot. 



Barred Warbler. 



Icterine Warbler. 



Bluethroat. 



Ortolan. - 



Shore-Lark. 



Nightjar. 



Pied Flycatcher. 



Lapland Bunting. 



Great Grey Shrike. 



Landrail. 



LIST OF BIRDS. 



Pallas's Willow- Warbler. 



Aquatic Warbler. 



Yellow-browed Warbler. 



Ring-Ouzel. 



Wryneck. 



Green Woodpecker. 



Richard's Pipit. 



Red-breasted Flycatcher. 



Yellow-breasted Bunting. 



