426 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
His description of the bird leaves no doubt as to the species 
intended. 
Willughby, a contemporary and correspondent of Sir Thomas 
Browne, has described, in his ‘ Ornithology,’ a young Spoonbill 
“taken out of the nest,” and although he has not stated where the 
nest was found, it may well have been one of those referred to as 
being in existence at Trimley in Suffolk about four years before 
Willughby’s death, which occurred in 1672.* 
The record to which I now desire to direct attention is a century 
older, and, so far as | am aware, has not hitherto been brought to 
the notice of ornithologists. 
In a MS. Survey of certain manors in Sussex, “taken by 
commandemente of the Duke of Norfolk,” and “ begonne the xxv 
daye of September, Anno xij® Eliz. R.” (1570), the following 
memorandum appears :-— 
“MP? that win half a furlonge of Halnaker parke pale on the 
west side thereof lyeth a parke called Goodwoode Parke; and by 
the northest parte thereof lyeth one other parke called Shelhurst 
Parke, distaunte from Halnaker pale one quarter of a myle. And 
on the north side of that pale lyeth one other parke called Estden, 
halfe a myle dystaunte. In the woods called the Weestwood and 
the Haselette, Shovelers and Herons have lately breed, and some 
Shovelers breed there this yeere.” 
This curious MS., consisting of fourteen folios, is in the pos- 
session of Mr. Evelyn P. Shirley. The Survey in question, which 
was made by “ Robt® Harrys and John Dobbes, servauntes to the 
said Duke,” is noticed in the ninth volume of the ‘Sussex Arche- 
ological Collections’ (p. 223), but the contributor, the late Mr. M. A. 
Lower, not being an ornithologist, has made no comment on the 
passage just cited. 
Dallaway, in his ‘History of the Western Division of the 
County of Sussex’ (vol.i. p. 174), thus describes the locus 
in quo:— 
“Kast Dean is so called with reference to West Dean, from 
which it is disjoined by Singleton. It is a parish of larger 
* Sir Thomas died exactly ten years later. Willughby speaks of him (op. cit., 
p. 286) as ‘my honoured friend Sir Thomas Browne of Norwich, a person deservedly 
famous for his skill in all parts of learning, but especially in Natural History.” 
