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of Reading, in October, 1841, but was shot in the previous 
month of August at Chobham, in Surrey. It is quite possible 
that this may have been the bird seen shortly before at Kings- 
bury Reservoir, but this is merely inferred from the infrequency 
with which this species has been observed in England. 
A female Little Bittern (Case 44) is noteworthy, as having 
been shot on the Lea, near Enfield, on the 10th September, 1847 
(Zool. 1848, p. 1969), and a specimen of the American Red- 
breasted Snipe, Macrorhamphus griseus, deserves mention, as 
having been shot, probably at low tide, on the banks of the 
Thames, near Battersea, some forty years ago. This is the 
specimen referred to in ‘The Birds of Middlesex’ (p. 195), the 
second Middlesex specimen therein mentioned as ‘‘killed at 
Stone Bridge, on the River Brent,” having been deposited by the 
author in the collection of British Birds in the Natural History 
Museum, together with other rare wading birds shot by him at 
Kingsbury Reservoir, amongst others the Little Ringed Plover 
and Temminck’s Stint. A Little Ringed Plover, in Case 54, is 
in precisely similar plumage to that just referred to, and was 
also obtained at Kingsbury Reservoir by Mr. Bond. The date 
cannot now be ascertained, but it is almost certain to have been 
in August or September, the season at which the young of most 
grallatorial birds are met with on their southward migration. 
The Red-necked Phalarope, P. hyperboreus, is much rarer in 
the South of England than the Grey Phalarope, which in some 
years is comparatively common, and birds in summer or 
breeding plumage are very seldom met with in the spring. 
Case 87 contains a specimen of P. hyperboreus in summer 
plumage, which (strange to tell) was shot in the summer of 
1850, while running between the rails near the Stratford Station 
on the Great Eastern Railway, and was presented by Mr. E. 
Shepherd. 
The series of wading birds in this collection is very fine, 
containing good specimens of all the British Charadrude and 
Scolopacide, most of which were shot by their late owner at 
Kingsbury Reservoir, Southend, and the Isle of Wight. 
The pair of Sand Grouse in Case 67, although not labelled, 
were received from Cambridgeshire in July, 1863 (cf. ‘ Zoologist,’ 
1863, p. 8722), the female from Cottenham, and the male from 
Swaffham Prior. Another male, which was shot at the same 
