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noticeable bird is the young Woodchat, shot by H. Rogers, at 
Freshwater, Isle of Wight, in September, 1856 (¢f. Yarrell’s ‘ Brit. 
Birds,’ 4th ed. i. p. 216). 
In Case 4 there is an Alpine Accentor, not mentioned in the 
latest edition of Yarrell, which was purchased at the sale of the 
Margate Museum, and is labelled ‘‘ Killed at Hove, near Shore- 
ham, Sussex, 1845.” In Case 6 is the young male Black 
Redstart obtained by Bond at Kilburn, Middlesex, Oct. 25th, 
1829, and the first recorded British example of this species 
(‘ Zool. Journ.’ vol. v. p. 103). In Case 8 are a pair of Pied 
Flycatchers from Cumberland, 1848, received from Heysham, 
the well-known ornithologist ; and two young birds of the same 
species, evidently reared in this country, — one taken near 
Brighton, in September, 1866; the other at Hampstead, in 
August, 1868. The label has “ Sept. 1868” for the last-named 
specimen ; but in an interleaved copy of * The Birds of Middlesex,’ 
in the writer’s possession, there is a MS. note of the occurrence, 
written at the time, from information supplied by the birdcatcher 
(Davy, of Camden Town), who took it with three others, from 
which it appears that it was in August they were obtained. This 
renders it the more likely that, being all immature birds, they 
were reared at no great distance from where they were found, 
namely, on the outskirts of the Hampstead Woods. 
In Case 9, besides three examples of the Grasshopper Warbler, 
and an albino Sedge Warbler (from Lewes, Sussex, Sept., 1860), 
the most remarkable bird of the group is Savi’s Warbler, 
Acrocephalus luscinoides (Savi), a single specimen, labelled “ Fen 
near Baitsbight, Cambridge, May, 1845.” From information 
supplied by Mr. Bond to Prof. Newton (¢f. Yarrell’s ‘ Brit. Birds,’ 
“Ath ed. vol. i. p. 891) it would appear that the specimen just 
‘mentioned, as well as some others from the same district after- 
‘wards, were obtained through the intervention of one Harvey, 
the lock-keeper, at Baitsbight, on the River Cam. 
«« At that time a large extent of fen in the neighbourhood was over- 
grown with one of the social sedges (Cladium mariscus), which towards 
autumn was regularly cut, and, being made into bundles, was carried 
by water to Cambridge, to serve as kindling for fires. The sedge- 
cutters used commonly to find many old nests of singular construction 
in the course of their work,—nests which could not be assigned to any 
of the known kinds of fen-birds; and this fact was learned by Harvey, 
