
THE BIRDS OF DORSET. 
To the Editors of BritisH Brrps. 
Srrs,—I should be much obliged if any of your readers would be so 
kind as to send me information about the birds of Dorset, especially 
since the publication in 1888 of the late J. C. Mansel-Pleydell’s book 
on the birds of the county. Any notes will be welcomed, but I 
especially want records of the rarer species, and also notes on the 
extension of range and decrease or otherwise of the more characteristic 
species inhabiting the county. F. L. BhatHWAYT. 
MELBURY OSMUND RECTORY, 
DorcHESTER, DORSET. 
JOHN HUNT. 
To the Editors of BririsH Brrps. 
Strs,—Allusion is made in Captain Gladstone’s very exhaustive 
biography of John Hunt, the Norfolk bird-painter, to a somewhat 
ancient case containing an Egret and a Night Heron, in which the 
painted background was presumed to be the work of Hunt (antea, 
p- 128). This bird-case having been taken down for the Hunt 
exhibition arranged by Mr. Leney at the Norwich Castle Museum, 
the supposed painting, I am sorry to say, is now discovered to be 
only a print. 
J. H. GURNEY. 
