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WOODCHAT SHEIKE. 



Shot near Fairlight Church, Sussex, July 29th, 1893. 



AQUATIC WARBLER. 



Shot by Mr. Pratt, in an old brick pit at Hove, Sussex, 

 19th October, 1853, being the first specimen of this rare 

 species recognised as having been obtained in Great Britain. 



" Birds of Sussex," p. 67. 

 Howard Saunders' " Manual," p. 79. 



BOHEMIAN WAXWING. 



One shot by Mr. Dawson Borrer near Kelso, Scotland, 

 January, 1850 ; another, an adult male, shot near Hastings, 

 Sussex. 



WATEE PIPIT. 



Two Sussex specimens from the Borrer collection, one 

 shot at Old Shoreham, August, 1868, and the other at 

 Shoreham, March 9th, 1869. 



" Birds of Sussex," p. 103. 



RICHARD'S PIPIT. 



Three specimens from the Borrer collection caught in 

 lark-nets on Clayton Hill, Sussex, 1869. One of them, in 

 summer plumage, was obtained March 17th, 1869. 



" Birds of Sussex," p. 106. 



CRESTED LARK. 



An adult male, taken by a bird catcher near Portslade, 

 Sussex, October 10th, 1881. (" Birds of Sussex," p. 112). 

 Though very common on the other side of the channel, this 

 species very rarely indeed crosses over to our shores. 



