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other species of the genus, was very marked, the whole of the under 

 plumage, as well as the shafts and parts of the webs of the first two or 

 three primaries, being suffused with it. This was an adult bird, but 

 the change to winter plumage was not completed, the head having a 

 considerable portion of the black still remaining. 



Sioallow. — A few swallows seen throughout the first fortnight in 

 October. On the 21st I saw sixteen, but none after. 



Spotted Crake. — This is a scarce bird in western Sussex. On the 

 10th of October I saw one which had been shot near Chichester a few 

 days before. 



Lesser Reclpole and Siskin. — The lesser redpole has not appeared so 

 numerously as usual this autumn and winter j first seen on the 12th 

 of October, and again on the 23rd, in company with some siskins, 

 feeding on the seeds of the alder. The latter bird, as a rule, is the 

 scarcer of the two ; I have known a whole winter pass without so 

 much as seeing or hearing of a single example. 



Osprey. — October 17th. An osprey was shot, just within the borders 

 of the adjoining county, Hampshire, viz., near Havant, on the above 

 date. This is recorded in the c Field ' of November 3rd. 



Buzzard. — November 7th. A specimen of the common buzzard was 

 brought into Chichester Harbour on board a coal vessel. It was 

 captured by means of a noose, it having alighted in the rigging of the 

 vessel in the dusk of the evening, when off Flamborough Head. It is 

 a small specimen, probably a male, and as the legs are greenish flesh- 

 colour I imagine it to be a bird of the year. Since November 7th it 

 has been in my possession, and is doing well. It throws up " crams" 

 of feathers, bones, and other indigestible matter, the same as owls 

 do. 



Hoopoe. — A hoopoe was shot early in the month of October, and 

 sent to a Chichester taxidermist for preservation. 



Black Redstart. — A female black redstart was observed in October 

 at a place near the village of Ashling, where a pair were seen and the 

 female shot in October, 1862. 



Ring Dove. — The ring dove or " wood pigeon," as it is hei - e called, 

 I noticed passing N.W. in flocks of forty or fifty soon after daybreak, 

 several mornings in succession, about the 2 1st of November. 



Divers. — Both the great northern and the redthroated divers have 

 been scarce this winter. In November a few were killed, and sold for 

 plume manufacture. I have seen, at one house in Chichester, the 

 breasts of fourteen little grebes cut up the middle and sewn together 



