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the parish in the rocky bank of a stream formed by the waste water 
of Hurst Mill Pond. 
The Wood Lark (Alauda arborea), whose song is more highly 
esteemed by many persons than that of the Sky Lark, is not un- 
common in the district, but is much less numerous than the latter 
species, and much more local. “Scarcely a season passes,” says 
Mr. Weaver, “but we meet with its nest on the ground among 
grass in Uppark and Lady Holt Park, at which time the bird may, 
of course, be frequently seen and heard; but we have particularly 
noticed that although in its musical soarings it not unfrequently 
passes and repasses the boundaries of the parks, it seldom strays 
far from either in the breeding season. On the other hand, large 
flocks of them may be seen towards the end of winter, before they 
have selected their several summer homes” (p. 278). 
The Hawfinch, which is generally found in small parties in 
severe weather, has on a few occasions been found nesting in the 
parish; while at no great distance, in an easterly direction, it is 
said to be “permanently resident” (p. 282). The increase in the 
numbers of this bird of late years, and its extended distribution, 
has been noticed by observant naturalists in many different 
localities. 
In the year 1776 the late Sir Harry Fetherstonhaugh imported 
from France several sittings of the eggs of the Red-legged Par- 
tridge, and in the subsequent correspondence between him and his 
mother we learn that the hatching was perfectly successful ; several 
coveys were bred in the walled gardens attached to “ Harting 
Place” and in the park; but the experiment to establish them here 
permanently seems to have failed. Mr. Weaver says :— 
«We have a recollection of some forty years, during which we never 
heard of a single specimen having been found on the estate; and when, 
about the year 1860, one of the keepers discovered several eggs of the 
species on Castle-Farm, he brought them in as the eggs of ‘some furrin 
bird,’ the like of which he had never seen before. Since then we have not 
only met with several in the Warren and on Hast Harting Farm (some 
deposited in nests of the Pheasant), but many of the birds have been shot 
on East Harting Down, where it has been no uncommon occurrence to put 
up a covey or two several seasons in succession. The species is said to be 
tolerably common in the neighbourhood of Butser Hill” (p. 287). 
The Black Grouse is briefly alluded to as rare, “one or two 
