NOTES FROM WEST SUSSEX. 49 
On the 14th June I observed a pair of Dartford Warblers at 
Heyshott Common, near Midhurst. On the 15th I saw a Spotted 
Flycatcher take an insect with its foot and transfer it from its 
foot to its bill while still on wing. On the 26th a large flock of 
Swifts, numbering one hundred or upwards, were seen at Havant. 
On the 27th I saw a Black Redstart. 
On the 29th October I obtained an adult specimen (the middle 
tail-feathers shed) of Buffon’s Skua, which had recently been 
killed in the Manhood, below Chichester, where a second adult 
specimen was caught in an exhausted condition about the same 
time. 
On the 10th December a Chichester birdstuffer had a great 
many Long-eared Owls sent in. They seemed to be more 
numerous than the Short-eared this winter. 
In 1880, on the 10th January, I saw a young male Peregrine 
Falcon, killed at Earnley, at the birdstuffer’s. It had in its 
stomach the remains of a Teal. 
A Bittern was killed at Vinnetrow on the 8rd February, and 
about the middle of March an adult male Shoveller, out of a party 
of eight, in Bosham Harbour. 
With regard to the arrival of summer migrants this year, 
there is little to be said. Though generally later than the average 
‘dates, they were not so irregular as in 1879; but I think that, as 
to insectivorous birds, if a census could have been taken, the 
summer population of this district would have been shown to be 
much smaller than in former years. 
A specimen of the Wood Sandpiper was killed at Itchenor on 
the 10th May; I saw it in the flesh on the 12th. 
The first living specimen of the Pied Flycatcher I had ever 
seen appeared in my garden on the 14th May. My attention 
was at first attracted by its song, a low warble commencing 
“zic, zic, zic,’ very like the same note in the Lesser White- 
throat, which I at first took it to be. I watched it for some time 
flitting about among the apple trees, but saw no more of it after 
that day. With the aid of a binocular I could see no white on 
the forehead, and the dark parts had a brownish tint; therefore 
I take it to be a male of last season. Another specimen of the 
Pied Flycatcher occurred at Appledram near Chichester, where it 
was shot by Mr. F’. N. Hobgen on the 6th May, eight days before 
mine appeared. 
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