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were elicited, and I cannot now ascertain Crane’s where- 
abouts. 
Under the date of August 7th, 1854, Mr. J. Cavafy writes 
to the “Naturalist” to say that Mr. Swaysland had shown 
him, among other rare birds killed at Brighton, “several 
Spotted Sandpipers.” Brighton is noted for rare birds, but 
if the above were really procured there, it is singular that 
we should have heard no more of them, and accordingly I 
think we may take it as pretty certain that there was some 
mistake which further enquiries or a more critical examina- 
tion revealed. In the case of another which I saw at 
Mr. Swaysland’s shop in 1871, I am now satisfied that there 
was a mistake. He said—doubtless in perfect good faith— 
that it was killed between Worthing and Little Hampton 
by a Mr. Gringer, whose letter he showed me as proof. He 
-had bought it of Mrs. Wells, the widow of the late trust- 
worthy and intelligent birdstuffer at Worthing, and with her 
I had some correspondence on the subject, the result of 
which was to leave no doubt on my mind that a mistake 
had been committed by somebody. 
I have further to name another pair ‘marked “Sussex” 
in the sale catalogue of the collection of Mr. Byne of 
Milligan Hall, near Taunton, and I think I remember that 
gentleman showing them to me, and saying they came from 
the birdstuffer at Brighton. I have not the least doubt that 
here also there was some mistake, though after a lapse of 
several years it becomes not easy to ferret it out. 
In Mr. Ecroyd Smith’s “Notabilia of the Mersey Dis- 
trict,’ Mr. C. S. Gregson says (p. 51) :— 
“ Edwin Lord, of Warrington, shot two specimens on the Mersey 
below that town in May, 1863, one of which I possess.” 
I have been obliged by a photograph of this bird. There 
is no mistake about it. And Mr. G. vouches for its authen- 
ticity ‘to me, in a letter, in the following words :— 
