GOLDEN ORIOLE.— DIPPER. 43 



Many years ago, I have unfortunately lost the date, I had 

 the rare pleasure of seeing no fewer than fourteen of these 

 beautiful birds sunning themselves on an old thorn-bush on 

 Henfield Common, and got within some forty or fifty yards of 

 them. I have never heard of any other instance of so large 

 a number having been seen together. A pair of this species 

 frequented for some time a garden at Fittleworth, and would, 

 no doubt, have bred there, but they were unfortunately 

 shot, although every effort was made to keep them from being 

 disturbed. 



In the ' Zoologist •" it is recorded (p. 268, s. s.) that a male 

 Golden Oriole was picked up dead, at East Grinstead, in May 

 1866 ; and at p. 334, s. s., is another note on Sussex spe- 

 cimens. 



CINCLID^. 



DIPPER. 



Cinclus aquaticus. 



The Dipper, or Water Ouzel, has very rarely been met 

 with in Sussex. In a list of birds compiled by Mr. Thos. 

 Woolgar, who died in 1831, printed in Horsfield's ' History 

 of Lewes' (Appendix, p. 18, vol. i.), one is stated to have 

 been shot at the mouth of the Ouse near Newhaven. A 

 second is recorded by Mr. J. H. Gurney, 'Zoologist' 

 (p. 2848, s,s.), which he saw at Mr. Gasson's, the naturalist, 

 atllye; it had the usual chestnut band on the lower part 

 of the breast ; and another is mentioned in the same journal 

 for 1884 (p. 4!^1) by Mr. Thos. Parkin, of the. Vicarage, 

 Halton, Hastings, as shot on the "Salts" at Bopeep, St. 

 Leonards-ou-Sea, on September I3th of that year. .. 



