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FIRE CRESTED WREN. 



Obtained near Brighton, October 21st, 1868. Acquired 

 by purchase. 



Four other specimens from the Borrer collection, as 

 follows : 



A male, found dead in a garden at Brighton, November 

 5th, 1843. 



A female caught alive with a lantern and bell in a 

 shrubbery at Lancing, Sussex/December 12th, 1846. 



One killed with a stone near Worthing, November, 1852. 



Another found dead at Shoreham, November 10th, 1854. 



"Birds of Sussex," p. 78. 



TAWNY PIPIT. 



Killed near Eottingdean, Sussex, by Mr. G. E. Guthrie, 

 September 6th, 1869. It was in company with another bird 

 of the same species, and their note attracted attention, being 

 very different from that of the other Pipits. 



Another, from the Borrer collection, caught near 

 Brighton, October, 1871. 



SOLITARY SNIPE. 



A male, from the Borrer collection, shot in Lincolnshire, 

 in May, 1845. 



Another, obtained near Oxford, October, 1867. Presented 

 by Mrs. Griffith. 



BERNACLE GOOSE. 



A fine male specimen, shot January 10th, 1896, on the 

 river between Old Shoreham and New Shoreham, Sussex. 

 Presented by Messrs. Pratt & Sons. 



From the collection formed by the late Mr. William 

 Borrer, of Cowfold, and purchased in 1901, come the 

 following, in addition to several mentioned above : 



SEA EAGLE. 



An immature bird, shot on the Isle of Greena, Weesdale 

 Voe, Shetland, September, 1850. 



