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forwards under a warm Hedge or on the sunny side of some 

 old Building ; nay, once on the 8th of Decemher, I saw two 

 Martins, flying about very briskly, the Weather being mild. 

 From whence could these Birds come if not from some Hole 

 or Cavern where they had laid themselves up for the 

 Winter? Surely it will not be asserted that these Birds 

 migrated from the Coast of Africa, or any other distant 

 Country, at that Season of the Year merely on the coming 

 of two or three fine Days? Again, in the Spring a few 

 Swallows or Martins will frequently make their Appearance 

 on a warm Day so early -as April, but they do not appear in 

 any Number till later in the Summer, and tho' this does not 

 absolutely prove their lying in a torpid State, yet it favours 

 that Opinion." 



Thus far Mr. Markwick. 



I was not aware, till after this work was in the press, that 

 Mr. T. J. Monk, of Lewes, had, in the ' Field ' Newspaper 

 of January the 25th, 1871, while endeavouring to induce 

 the Sportsmen of East Sussex to establish a close time for 

 Woodcock, from the 1st February, given a list of parishes 

 in that division of the county in which he had known them 

 to breed, namely, Ardingly, Ashburnham, Balcombe, Battle, 

 Brightling, Catsfield, Chailey, Crawley, Dallington, East 

 Grinstead, East Hoathly, Fletching, Frant, Hartfield, 

 Maresfield, Mayfield, Newick, Rotherfield, Slaugham, Tun- 

 bridge Wells, Waldron, and Worth. There are other 

 interesting points in Mr. Monk^s paper, but I abstain from 

 further extracts, as I hear that we shall shortly have further 

 information on the subject from Mr. Monk himself. 



In the History and Antiquities of Horsham, by Miss Do- 

 rothea E. Hurst, p. 233, may be found this note : — " The very 

 rare circumstance of a Redwing's nest being found in this 

 country occurred at Warnham, near Horsham, in April 

 1872. It was discovered by Mr. D. M. G. Price, in a low 



