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that all the examples of red-breasted Rock-Pipits in Case 16 

 in the Booth Museum are " Scandinavian " Rock-Pipits 

 {Anthus rupestris Nilss.) ; none of them are Water- Pipits 

 {Anthus spipoletta), as has been formerly suggested. 



M. J. NiCOLL. 



During the past summer I paid a visit to the Rochester 

 Museum,which contains the admirable and excellently-cared for 

 collection of the late Mr. Walter Prentis, of Rainham, and at 

 Mr. Nicoll's request carefully examined the bird to which he 

 refers in the above letter. With much regret I came to the 

 same conclusion with regard to it, as he has done with regard 

 to the Sussex specimen : it is undoubtedly nothing more than 

 an unusually bright Meadow-Pipit {A. pratensis). The breast 

 is pinkish-yellow, 7^o^red,and the rump and upper tail-coverts 

 are entirely devoid of the large black centres to the feathers, 

 which are such a characteristic feature of A. cervinus. 



N. F. TiCEHURST. 



RICHARD'S PIPIT IN NORFOLK. 



This bird is a not infrequent autumn visitor to Norfolk, 

 but it is worthy of record that a female was obtained at Cley 

 on October 31st, and another on November 18th last, as I 

 am informed by Mr. H. N. Pashley. H. F. Witherby. 



SOME SUSSEX RAVENS. 



I AM indebted to Mr. Walter Hewett, who was then game- 

 keeper to the lessees of Heathfield Park, for the following 

 interesting account of the nesting-places of the Raven on that 

 picturesque estate during the seventies of last centary. There 

 w^ere two nesting sites used alternately by a pair of Ravens 

 in the park itself ; the one in a clump of old Scotch firs on the 

 Tower plain, the other in the Gravel Pit clump, also ancient 

 Scotch firs. This pair of Ravens were so destructive to 

 lambs and ewes during the lambing season — at times destroy- 

 ing the mother, during parturition — that deadly war was 

 waged against them. The old Ravens were so wary that it 

 was difficult to shoot them, but when the young were nearly 

 ready to fly the nest was riddled with bullets, and the brood 

 destroyed annually. In 1876 the Ravens deserted Heathfield 

 Park and built their nest a mile or so away, in a group of 

 Scotch firs, called the Mare and Foal, a very prominent object 

 in the landscape, situated on the ridge that runs from Pun- 

 nett's Town, overlooking Cade Street. In April, 1876, Hewett 

 took up his position in Slaughter Lane, on the south side of 

 the Mare and Foal clump, sending a companion to the nest 

 to disturb the birds. The male Raven fell to Hewett' s gun, 



