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who dealt in various objects of Natural History. The people of the 
district were also aware of a reddish brown bird, having a peculiar 
song, often heard at night, not altogether unlike that of the Grass- 
hopper Warbler or ‘ Reeler,’ but still quite distinct ; and this bird they 
called indifferently the ‘ Brown,’ ‘ Red,’ or ‘ Night Reeler.’ Instigated 
by his customers, Harvey at length procured from the fen-men speci- 
mens of this bird, and a few years later its fresh nests and eggs. The 
earliest of the former so obtained seem to have passed into Mr. Baker’s 
hands ; and the first of the latter, taken in May, 1845, were purchased 
by Mr. Bond, who distributed the eggs to several of his friends,— 
among others to Yarrell, to Newman, by whom they were described 
(‘ Zoologist,’ 1846, p. 1212), and to Hewitson, who, in the same year, 
figured a specimen in his ‘Eggs of British Birds,’ Pl. XXV.” 
“Thus,” adds Professor Newton (tom. cit., p. 892, note), ‘‘ Mr. Bond 
is entitled to the merit of having been the first to bring the discovery 
of the eggs and very peculiar nest of this species to the knowledge of 
naturalists.”’ 
He presented one of the nests to the British Museum, and a 
representation of it forms the final vignette to the article on 
Savi’s Warbler in the latest edition of Yarrell’s standard work. 
Another fen-bird in this collection, the Bearded Tit (of which 
old and young specimens from Whittlesea Mere, June and August, 
1849, are in Case 10), deserves mention, as having been obtained 
by Bond himself in the old days before drainage had destroyed 
or considerably circumscribed its ancient haunts; and a pair of 
Crested Tits from Carr Bridge, Perthshire (obtained by the late 
Mr. Charles Thurnall in 1852) are conspicuous in Case 14. 
The first recognized occurrence of the White Wagtail, Mota- 
cilla alba, in this country was in May, 1841, when Mr. Bond 
found two pairs of this bird on the banks of Kingsbury Reservoir, 
Middlesex, and shot two males and a female (see Ann. Mag. Nat. 
Hist. vol. vii. p. 850; also Yarrell, ‘Brit. Birds,’ 4th ed. vol. i. 
p. 548). Two of these are preserved in Case 18; the third he 
gave to Yarrell. The Grey-headed Wagtail, Motacilla fava (the 
first British specimen of which was obtained by Henry Doubleday 
at Walton-on-the-Naze in October, 18384), is represented in 
Case 11 by a specimen taken near Brighton in 1866. 
Case 131 contains a female Pine Grosbeak, Pyrrhula enucleator, 
shot at Harrow-on-the-Hill, and figured by Yarrell, who was the 
original possessor of the specimen (‘ Brit. Birds,’ 4th ed. vol. ii. 
‘ p. 177); and in another case, in a cabinet drawer, is the Scarlet 
