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heard in Essex on the same day, and near Southampton one day 

 earlier. 



Meadow Pipit mid Linnet. — Meadow pipits numerous about the 

 first week iu April, and small parties of the common linnet seen for 

 some weeks past; frequently observed passing in a northerly 

 direction. 



Moorhen. — A brood of young moorhens was hatched on the 1st of 

 April. Tlie nest was in a pit at the back of a cottage, where a pair of 

 moorhens nested last year. The present tenants of the pit, both old 

 and young, come regularly to feed with some fowls just by, and the 

 old birds do not hesitate to "pitch into" the fowls if they interfere 

 with them in any way. On the SSrd this pair of birds had completed 

 another nest and deposited a second lot of eggs. 



Shorteared Owl. — April 1 Ith. Saw, at Chichester, a shorteared owl, 

 in the flesh, which had been killed in the neighbouihood a few days 

 before. 



Lesser Spotted Woodpecker.— \)p\-\\ 11th. A pair, male and female, 

 were killed in Oakwood, near here, about the above date. The crown 

 of the head, in the female, was while, with just a tinge of red about it, 

 forehead brownish. 



Garyaney. — A))ril lllh. A pair of these handsome little ducks killed 

 near Selsey : they are now in my collection. A male in the Chichester 

 Museum was killed in the same month, April, some years ago. It is a 

 scarce bird in Sussex. 



Gulls. — April 11th. Saw thirteen large gulls, flying N.E., in the 

 evening : could not see enough of them to distinguish the species, but 

 the plumage appeared to be gray. 



Rinff Ouzel. — April 12th to 20lh. A few''of these birds have been 

 obtained during the migration. As a rule, they are not nearly so 

 numerous, nor so frequently met with here, at this time of the year as 

 in the autumn. 



Black Tern. — April 14th. About this time the black tern appeared 

 on the coast, and about some ponds several miles inland, even in close 

 proximity to the city of Chichester. Whenever I have previously met 

 with this species in the spring, it has been in the month of May. The 

 stomach of a female, killed at Birdham, contained fourteen or fifteen 

 full-sized shrimps. 



Redlh routed Diver.— On the 16lh of April I saw, in the flesh, 

 a rcdlhroaled diver iu full summer plumage. It was killed a day 

 or two before in Emsworth Harbour, on the western border of 



