OSPREY.— GYRFALCON. 5 



Chichester and Brighton, on Pevensey Level, and at Rye 

 Harbour (O. R. p. 46) . 



Mr. Dennis informed me, by letter, that an Osprey had 

 been shot on the Castle Hill, Newhaven, on the 33rd of 

 August, 1862, and observed that he had not heard of one in 

 that neighbourhood for eighteen years. In November 1848 

 an Osprey was killed at Udimore (Zoologist, p. 2346) , and 

 in September 1867 one was shot at West Wittering, and 

 about the same time another specimen was obtained at 

 Littlehampton (Zoologist, p. 1034). 



The Osprey being, in England, strictly migratory, not 

 unfrequently occurs in an adult state, whereas with the 

 Eagle exactly the contrary is the case. 



Since writing the above, I have received notes from 

 Mr. Jeffery, in which he states that an Osprey was killed at 

 Stanstead, near Chichester, on the 16th of October, 1863. 



GYKFALCON. 



Falco gyrfalco. 



Only one specimen of this bird appears to have occurred in 

 Sussex, and it is now in my own collection. I obtained it 

 from Mr. Ellman, who informed me that it had been shot at 

 Mayfield in January 1845, during severe weather ; it was in 

 the act of devouring a pigeon on the top of a wheat-stack. 

 Mr. Ellman had had it some years when I saw it, and he 

 considered it to be a light- coloured specimen of F. pere- 

 grinus; but I convinced, him that it was one of the Gyr- 

 falcons, and he has recorded it as such in the ' Zoologist ' 

 for 1851 (p. 3233), stating it to be an "immature" bird. 



In Yarrell's 'British Birds,' vol. i. (p. 49), the same bird 

 is mentioned, from my information, as F. islandicus, which 



