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these birds had been occasionally seen climbing the but- 
tresses of the buildings, or feeding on the grass-plots of the 
garden, and were so tame, a character peculiar to the 
species,—that one of them, probably a male, was supposed 
to have fallen a victim to a cat: the other was shot; on 
dissection it proved to be a female, and the specimen was 
prepared and preserved for Dr. Thackeray’s collection. 
A second specimen has been killed in Essex; and the 
following notice of the occurrence appeared in Loudon’s 
Magazine of Natural History for the year 1832, page 288, 
in a letter to the editor, as follows :—“Sir,—A few years 
since, I shot a small bird in a garden on the borders of 
Epping Forest, which I did not know, nor could any one 
tell me what it was, till within a fortnight a gentleman 
requested me to allow him to take it to London. He 
accordingly went to Mr. Gould, Naturalist, 20, Broad- 
street, Golden-square, who sends me an account of its 
being the Accentor alpinus, or Alpine Warbler, the only 
one known to have been killed m England, with the 
exception of one in Dr. Thackeray’s garden at Cambridge. 
If any of your correspondents would like to see it, they 
ean, by calling at my nursery, Wood Street Waltham- 
stow.—I am, Sir, yours, &c. James Pamprin. Whips Cross, 
Walthamstow, January 27th.” 
I am indebted to the Rev. Dr. Goodenough, the Dean 
of Wells, for a knowledge of the occurrence of a third 
example of this rare bird, which was shot in the garden of 
the Deanery in Somersetshire in 1833. Dr. Goodenough 
most obligingly offered to send this bird up to London for 
my use: but the loan of Dr. Thackeray’s specimen ren- 
dered a second example unnecessary. I am not, however, 
the less happy to record my obligations for the favour 
intended. 
