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SporreD F'rycaTcHeR nestinc 1n Hype Parx.—A pair of Spotted 
Flycatchers, Muscicapa grisola, frequented the gardens of Hamilton Place 
this summer (1878), and from the male bird being constantly alone there 
can be no doubt they had a nest there. Another pair built a nest in the foot 
of an elm in the Ornamental Garden at the east end of the Serpentine, and 
hatched their young. I watched the parent birds constantly feeding them. 
Another pair built their nest in a tree a few yards from the broad walk 
leading to the Albert Memorial, Kensington Gardens.—Epwarp Haminton 
(Portugal Street, Grosvenor Square). 
SaBINE’s GULL aT ScarsoroucaH.—On November 7th I had an immature 
specimen of Sabine’s Gull brought in to be preserved. No mature specimen, 
so far as I am aware, has been obtained on this coast—ALFRED Roperts 
(Scarborough). 
DeatH or Mr. T. W. Wonror.—This gentleman, whose name has long 
been familiar to all classes of Brighton society, died at his residence, 
38, Buckingham Place, Brighton, on Sunday, the 20th October last, in the 
fifty-first year of his age. His entry on a public career in Brighton was 
first made in connection with the Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, 
at the Albion Rooms. Shortly after the formation of the Brighton and 
Sussex Natural History Society, in 1855, Mr. Wonfor was appointed 
an Honorary Secretary, a post he continued to fill to the date of his 
death, and the duties of which he discharged with exceptional ability 
and energy. At the meetings of this Society, from which he was rarely 
absent, his extensive knowledge and cheerful manner rendered him a 
universal favourite, and his death leaves a vacancy which it will be difficult 
to supply. The papers communicated by Mr. Wonfor to the ‘ Proceedings 
of the Brighton and Sussex Natural History Society,’ chiefly on subjects 
connected with Microscopy, are numerous, and the excellence of many of 
them obtained for their author a more than local reputation. One of these, 
“On certain Butterfly Scales characteristic of Sex,” read at Brighton in 
November, 1867, was subsequently published in the eighth volume of the 
‘Microscopical Journal.’ In addition Mr. Wonfor contributed a great many 
articles on different branches of Zoology, not only to the ‘ Proceedings’ of 
his own Society, but to ‘Scientific Opinion,’ ‘ Science Gossip,’ and other 
periodicals. On the occasion of the visit of the British Association to 
Brighton, in 1872, Mr. Wonfor took a very active part in their proceedings, 
and acted as Secretary to one of the Committees. Although he never 
attained the position of a distinguished scientific specialist, few men ever 
possessed so large an amount of general information on scientific matters, 
or have been more ready to impart it for the benefit of others. Mr. Wonfor 
was appointed Curator of the Free Library and Museum in 1875, and was 
elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society in June, 1877, and a Member of 
the Entomological Society in February last. 
