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LAPLAND BUNTING. 

 Case 326. 



This rare visitor has been obtained most often in Norfolk 

 and Sussex. The severe winter of 1890-1 brought them over 

 in considerable numbers to the former county, when several 

 were observed also in Sussex. Two of the specimens in the 

 case (the front specimen in the middle of the case and the 

 back specimen to the left) were caught November 5th, 1890, on 

 the Downs near Brighton. The male and female in summer 

 plumage were obtained alive near Yarmouth (Norfolk) the 

 same autumn, and kept in an aviary till the following spring. 

 The other three specimens were shot at Cley-by-the-Sea 

 (Norfolk) during the same winter. 



GREAT GREY SHRIKE. 

 Case 327. 



This bird was presented by Mr. Frederic Smith, of 

 Loddington, near Maidstone, who shot it there on February 

 21st, 1898. It was sitting very upright on the top branch 

 of a tall oak tree. 



It is represented as reaching up to a Wren which it has 

 impaled on a thorn (from which habit towards insects and 

 small birds this species, with its commoner dongener the 

 red backed Shrike, derives its name of Butcher Bird). 



Case A. 

 (See page 207). 



GLOSSY IBIS. 

 Cases B. 



One of these rare stragglers to England was shot between 

 Arundel and Ford, Sussex, in October, 1876. It was 

 presented by Mr. Henry Willett. 



See Borrer's " Birds of Sussex, 35 p. 325. 



A fine male in full mature plumage, from the Borrer 

 Collection, killed at Piddinghoe, near Newhaven, Sussex, by 

 a labourer, May 25th, 1850. ("Birds of Sussex," p. 325). 

 (Formerly in Mr. Ellman's collection). 



