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(b) Lot 1429, " the MotaciUa anindinacea " here included 

 is probably the Reed-Warbler. 



\c) Lot 1430, " the Petty-Chaps loith the bird " is probably 

 the Garden-Warbler. (See {q) below.) 



{d) Lot 1 43 1, " the Lesser Field-lark " is probably the 

 Tree-Pipit and the " Reed Sparrow " is the Reed-Bunting. 

 {e) Lot 1432, the " Tit -lark " is probably the Meadow- 

 Pipit, the " lesser crested Lark " is the Tree-Pipit, and the 

 " Cold-Finch " is the Pied Flycatcher. 



(/) Lot 1433, the nest and eggs of " the Brambling or 

 Mountain Finch " if taken in Great Britain excite interest, 

 though the species has been reported as having nested in 

 Scotland. (.4 Practical Handbook of British Birds, ed. 

 by H. F. Witherby, 1920, p. 98.) 



(g) Lot 1434, " the Pippet-lark " is presumably the 

 Meadow-Pipit, and the description " a ncrc species with the 

 bird " gives no clue and renders astonishment the greater 

 that this lot should have been knocked down at but half-a- 

 crown ! 



{h) Lot 1435, includes " the Brambling," " Pettychaps " 

 (see (/) and (c) above) and "the Stone-chatterer" is probably 

 the Stonechat. 



(/') Lot 1436, " the red-headed Linnet " is probably the 

 Linnet, and the " Reed Sparrow " is the Reed-Bunting. 



{j) Lot 1438, the " Greater Butcher-bird " is the Great 

 Grey Shrike, which is but very rarely seen in summer in 

 Great Britain, and of which there is no authentic case of its 

 having nested here. The " Falco Palumbarius L." is the 

 Goshawk, for which " Furze-Hawk " would appear to be a 

 new name. 



(k) Lot 1439, " Red Butcher-bird " is, of course, the 

 Red-backed Shrike. 



(/) Lot 1440, " Sedge-bird " is the Sedge- Warbler, and 

 " Dob-chick " is the Little Grebe. 



{m) Lot 1441, " the Water Ouzel " is the Dipper, and it is 

 curious that it should be catalogued as " very rarely seen." 

 "MotaciUa anindinacea" (see (b) above). 



(n) Lot 1443, at £4 6s. was certainly one of the bargains 

 of the sale. 



(0) Lot 1642, includes a pair of " Sturniis Cinclus," i.e., 

 Dipper ; " Goldfinch," i.e., Pied Flycatcher ; " a single speci- 

 men of the Bohemian Chatterer," i.e., Waxwing ; and " the 

 head and wings of the Lesser Spotted Water Hen," i.e., 

 Spotted Crake ; the main attraction, however, of the lot 

 was a pair of " Picus villosits, not before known to be British." 



