PAGHAM HARBOUR 



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It was here that on a memorable occasion he turned 

 to such good account the manoeuvres of a punt 

 gunner, whose sudden appearance in proximity to a 

 large flock of wildfowl in the harbour at first filled 

 him with consternation, but who eventually enabled 

 him to make a most satisfactory right and left at a 

 Brent Goose and a Wild Swan as they came flying 



THE GREY PHALAROPE. 



towards him after the dischargeof the big punt gun 

 had put them up {Game Birds and Wildfowl, pp. 6i- 

 71, and Ornithological Rambles, pp. 8, 9). It was on 

 this part of the Sussex coast also that he made 

 those interesting observations on the migratory habits 

 of the Pied Wagtail {Ornithological Rambles, p- 81) 

 and other small birds, which threw a new light on the 

 subject of bird migration, and which have been 

 since approvingly quoted in Yarrell's standard work 



