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partridge in January, 1600; of robin, 

 early, 1720 ; of missel ibrush, early, id. ; 

 late, 1861 ; of baru owl, e.irly, 1721 ; 

 of water hen, curious position of, 1 723 ; 

 of wren witb a flycatclier's built on the 

 top of it, 1799; of redstart, 1801 ; of 

 Dartford warbler, with five eggs, id. ; 

 of redpole, id. ; of blue tit inside a 

 thrush's, 1802 ; of little grebe, 1803; 

 of jackdaw, extraordinary, 1847; of 

 tieldfare, 1864 ; of swallow, cuckoo in, 

 1866; of blackbird, with white nest- 

 lings, 1918 ; of willow wreu in a quick- 

 set fence, id. ; of chiffchaflF on a sum- 

 mer-house, id. ; of goldencresled wren 

 in ivy, id. ; of corn crake, 1920 



Newts feeding on frog's spawn, 1685 



Nightingale in Yorkshire, 1800; late 

 singing of, 1847; beautiful variety of 

 eggs of, 1 865 



Nigbtjar, 1675; unusual plumage of, 

 1848; in October, 1919; at Heath- 

 field Park, Sussex, 1928 



Nuthatch, redbellied, 1742 



Ophidia, 1650 



Oriole, golden, near Faversbam, 1513 ; at 

 Scilly, 1800; in Suffolk, 1861; in 

 Kent, 1864 ; near Horsham, id. ; in 

 Norfolk, 1911 



Ornithological notes from Norfolk, 14S9, 

 1908; at Raiuham, Kent, and neigh- 

 bourhood, 1496; from the County 

 Dublin for 1867, 1499; from North 

 Lincolnshire, 1543, 1666, 1736, 1S40, 

 1905; from Pembrokeshire, 1670; fruni 

 South Devon, 1720, 1845, 1846, 1917 ; 

 from Shetland, 1760; from Stirling- 

 shire, 1799, 1950 ; from Suffolk, 1858 ; 

 from Henley-on-Thames, 1916 



Osprey, 1493, 1697; in the Nurlb Sea, 

 capture of, 1512; at Epworth, 1559 ; 

 in Norfolk, 1721 ; American, 1613 



Otter near Wakefield, 1682; in Norfolk, 

 1926 



Otters in Suffolk, 1557, 1598, 1719 



Ouzel, ring, 1494, 1671. 1697; at Mus- 

 well Hill, 1721 ; in Kensington Gar- 

 dens, 1800; in Cornwall and Devon, 

 1917; piebald Viiriety of, 1513 



Owl, shorteared, 1543, 1698; American 

 barn, 1614; great horned, tV/. ; sco|)s 

 eared, 1671; American longeared, 

 1689; American shorteared, id.; 

 barred, id.; mottled or American 

 screech, id. ; saw-whet, id. ; snowv, 

 1689, 1763; in Ross-shire, 1863; 

 sparrow, 1689; hawk, 1631; barn, 

 early nesting of, in Norfdk, 1721 ; 

 longcaredj 1762; Tengmulm's, 1799; 



white, on Bishopsgate Church, 1846 ; 

 eagle, capture of in Norfolk, 1863 ; 

 white, hoots but seldom screams, 1882; 

 tawuy, screeches but rarely if ever 

 hoots, id. ; eagle, 1913 

 Owls, anecdote of, 1723 

 Oystercatcher, 1676, 1763 

 Parasites, bird, notes on, 1583; froui the 



gold pheasant, offer of, 1600 

 Paridae, 1742 



Partridge, 1545, 1666 ; containing egg in 

 winter, 1600; sitting in September, 

 1919; French, 1489,1494; spruce, 1745 

 Partridges nesting in January, 1600 ; 

 white (? ptarmigan) near Ganton, 

 Yorkshire, 1951 

 Pastor, rosecoloured, 1492, 1866 

 Peewits, 1861 

 Pelias Beriis, 1660 



Petrel, storm, 1495 ; forktailed, 1681 ; 

 near Faversbam, 1518; fulmar, 1849; 

 at Scarborough, 1518; at Whitby, zV/.; 

 at Saltburn, 1868; Leach's, 1849; 

 stormy, id.; Wilson's stormy, id. 

 Pewee, 1692 ; wood, id. 

 Phalacrocoracidae, 1852 

 Phalarope, gray, 1677, 169S ; in Sussex, 

 1920; red, 1749; rednecked, in the 

 neigbliourhood of Plymouth, 1920; at 

 Marlborough, 1951 

 Phalaropid^e, 1749 

 Pheasant containing egg in January, 



1000 

 Pheasant, pied, 1495 ; common, variety 

 of, 1562 ; gold, offer of parasites frum 

 the, 1600 

 Picid£E, 1691 



Pigeon, wood, J666; with curious mal- 

 formed beak, 1722; passenger, 1791 ; 

 wood, asbcoloured, 1848; Cape, 1921 

 Pigeons, wood, immigration of, 1496 ; 

 exiraordin^iry migration of, 1600, 1683 

 Pipit, rock, 1 194, 1497, 1674 ; Richard's, 

 at Brightiin, 1513, 1918; near Barn- 

 staple, 1561; near Brighton, 1683; 

 meadow, dwarf, 1561 ; tawny, near 

 Brighton, 1918 

 Pipits, water and rock, 1682; meadow, 



1683 

 Plover, golden, 1498, 1544, 1669, 1736; 

 on the variation in colour of the axillary 

 plume of, 1601; gray, 1498, 1697,' 

 1740, 1906; ringed, 1676, 1862; with 

 curious malformed beak, 1722 ; Ame- 

 rican golden, 1748 ; blackbellied or 

 gray, id. ; piping, id. ; ring or semi- 

 palraated, id.; Kentish, 1862, 1911 ; 

 killdeer, 1748 

 Pochard, 1678; white-eyed, 1490 



