

Birds. 2769 



Occurrence of the Waxwing near Tunbridge Welhj — A waxwing was shot at 

 Brenckley, near this place, on January 6th, 1850. — Walter W.Reeves; Tunbridge 

 Wells, January, 1850. 



Occurrence of the Waxwing near Hull. — Ahout a dozen specimens of the wax- 

 wing chatterer have been obtained in this neighbourhood ; three were killed at a single 

 discharge of the gun, at Cottingham, and several move seen. In Holderness they ap- 

 peared in considerable flocks; the stomach of one which was shot there was filled 

 with the seeds of the privet : they were described as making a chattering noise very 

 much in the manner of the magpie. — G. Norman ; Hull. 



Occurrence of the Waxwing in Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, and Cornwall. — 

 In the third week in January four waxwings were killed at or near Thetford ; of these 

 one was killed at Hockham, another at West Harding, and the remaining two in a 

 garden at Thetford ; these last were remarkable for their very small size and bright co- 

 lours; their sex, however, was not remarked: all these were taken in Norfolk. About 

 the same time, two were killed near Bury Saint Edmund's, and one at Barton Mills, in 

 Suffolk. Six specimens which have been killed in Cambridgeshire have come to my 

 knowledge ; of these two were bought in the Cambridge market, one was killed at Wil- 

 braham, one at Foulburn, one at Cherry Hinton, and the sixth near Grantchester. I 

 am sorry I do not know any of the dates of these occurrences. I have also heard from 

 a friend at Truro, in Cornwall, that one was killed there about the middle of January, 

 and another at or near Penzance during the frost. I very much regret I cannot give 

 the actual dates of all these captures, as it would be interesting to trace the progress 

 of this flight of birds. — Alfred Newton ; Thetford, February 9, 1850. 



Occurrence of the Waxwing and Black Redstart (Sylvia Tithys) near Liverpool. — 

 I beg to inform yon that I saw, in a bird-stuflfer's shop, a fresh-killed specimen of the 

 waxwing and black redstart ; the waxwing was shot in Cheshire, and the redstart at 

 Aigburth, near Liverpool, feeding along with a small flock of Montifringilla nivalis, 

 Brehm. — Henry Johnson ; Curator of the Liverpool Royal Institution, January 

 23, 1849. 



Occurrence of the Waxwing near Lewes. — On the 18th of January I obtained 

 a fine specimen of the waxwing, and another was seen at the same time at Tarring, 

 a hamlet joining that of Iiford, from whence I obtained the exotic grosbeak, of which 

 I saw a notice in your last month's journal. I know that several waxwings have been 

 obtained by gentlemen who reside some six or seven miles from this town. — Charles 

 Potter ; Lewes, February 15, 1850. 



Occurrence of the Waxwing near London, jrc. — Mr. Argent has received four of 

 these birds to preserve for customers : one shot near Chelmsford, one at Clapton, and 

 two at Walthamstow. — Edward Neioman. 



Occurrence of the Waxwing in various localities in Scotland. — I beg to 

 state that the late flight of this rare and beautiful bird to our Island was well 

 marked over a wide district in the north of Scotland, — from the Atlantic to the 

 German Ocean. It was observed in the Isle of Sky ; two were killed at Aldourie, 

 near Lochness, on the 18th of January ; four were seen (two of them killed) at Glen- 

 fernes, on the river Findhorn, on the 12th ; two were killed near Dalvey, a few miles 

 westward of Forres, on the 21st ; four were seen at the distillery close by the town of 

 Forres, about the same day ; one was killed in a garden in the outskirts of rhe town of 

 Elgin ; a small flock, of which two were killed, was seen near Innes House, five miles 

 eastward of Elgin, about the 14th ; and the 'North of Scotland Gazette' mentions 



