168 LANIADA. 
subject now, several instances having occurred in which 
this bird has been obtained. 
One of the earliest specimens recorded as British is that 
noticed by the Rev. Gilbert White in his 25th letter to 
Thomas Pennant, dated Selborne, August 30th, 1769. 
In the British Museum there is a specimen of the Wood- 
chat, a young male, which formerly belonged to the mu- 
seum of Dr. Leach, and is labelled as having been killed 
in Kent. 
In a communication to the Magazine of Natural His- 
tory* on the British species of Shrikes, by Mr. J. D. Hoy, 
who is devoted to the study of. birds and their habits, 
that gentleman mentions one instance of the Woodchat 
being killed near Canterbury, that came to his knowledge, 
and another killed in the neighbourhood of Swaffham in 
Norfolk, which last bird was in the collection of the late 
Rev. Robert Hammond. In a collection of birds formerly 
at Cambridge, which belonged to the Rev. Francis Henson, 
were a male and female Woodchat, both of which were 
said to have been killed in Suffolk. From the communi- 
cation of Joseph Clarke, Esq. of Saffron Walden, I find 
that Mr. Adams of Gorlestone in Norfolk has in his col- 
lection a Woodchat shot by himself; and a few years 
ago, Mr. Leadbeater received a specimen which had been 
killed in Yorkshire. Dr. Hastings, in his Illustrations of 
the Natural History of Worcestershire, says, the Wood- 
chat is stated by Mrs. Perrot to have appeared in the 
neighbourhood of Evesham. Lastly, I may mention that 
E. H. Redd Esq. of Penzance, in a communication read 
before the Royal Institute of Cornwall in 1840, referred 
to a male specimen of this rare bird which had been taken 
in a fishing boat at Scilly. 
* Vol. iv. p. 341. 
