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23rd Mr. Stares reported the first Hooded Crows, near Fareham. 

 On the 28th I went down to the coast near Lee-on-the-Solent. 

 Hoodies were numerous, and we saw a few Dunlins and Red- 

 shanks, large numbers of Ducks, and one lot of seven Brent Geese. 

 On this date Mr. Stares saw the first Fieldfare at Titchfield ; and 

 he informs me that a large migration of Goldcrests took place on 

 the 30th, the gardens at Porchester swarming with them. In the 

 second week of this month two Sandwich Terns, Sterna cantiaca* 

 were shot in Langston Harbour, just on the borders; and in the 

 beginning a Grey Phalarope, Phalaropus fulicarius, was shot 

 near Winchester ; special circumstances prevent me from giving 

 details more precise. On the 31st I saw the first Fieldfares, at 

 Winchester. Mr. Stares saw a Merlin near Porchester in the 

 course of the month. 



November. 

 On the 1st Mr. Ensor saw numbers of House Martins and 

 Sand Martins near St. Cross. On this date I went down to Por- 

 chester, where I saw the first Jack Snipe of the year. Mr. G. B. 

 Cobb and Mr. Stares saw a single Snow Bunting, Plectrophanes 

 nivalis, but I was not with them at the time. Mr. Stares gave 

 me a live Guillemot, a young bird of the year, which had been 

 caught on a line by a man fishing in the Solent ; I kept it for a 

 day or two, and then gave it to the "Abbey Gardens," Win- 

 chester, whence it unfortunately disappeared a few days afterwards. 

 On the 7th Mr. Ensor saw the first " winter Snipe." On the 9th 

 Mr. Stares sent me a young male Scaup Duck, shot at Hill Head, 

 on the Solent, on the 8th. On the 11th a Bittern was shot at 

 Worthy, and sent for preservation to Mr. Chalkley, who had also 

 received a Spotted Crake, Porzana maruetta, shot at St. Cross 

 on the 1st. Mr. Stares saw a Great Crested Grebe in the Solent 

 on the 8th (in litt. Nov. 11th). Goldfinches were unusually 

 plentiful with us this winter, and Grey Wagtails more numerous 

 than I have ever known them before. On the 21st we saw a 

 female Teal on the Itchen ; we very rarely see this species near 

 Winchester. Mr. Stares tells me that he saw two Woodcocks 

 near Fareham on the 10th; a flock of Brent Geese, five Shel- 

 drakes, and a Great Northern Diver, in the Solent, on the 11th; 

 and a Bittern, near Titchfield, on the 28th. The Hon. A. H. 

 Baring informs me that a male Shoveller appeared on the lake at 





