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Suffolk. — An adult male shot at Lound, near Lowestoft, 

 2nd May, 1859 (' Birds of Norfolk,' p. 64). An adult male shot 

 at Henham Hall, 10th May, 1860, by Mr. T. M. Spalding of 

 Westleton ; formerly in his collection ; now in the- collection 

 of Mr. J. H. Gurney. One killed at Bradwell, Suffolk, April, 

 1829, referred to by Messrs. Paget in their ' Nat. Hist. Gt. Yar- 

 mouth.' Another example is mentioned in Messrs. Gurney and 

 Southwell's list as having occurred at Gorleston, but I learn from 

 the Bevd. Julian G. Tuck that the three first are the only reliable 

 instances of the occurrence of the Woodchat in Suffolk. 



Essex. — One seen by Mr. Ambrose in the Colchester High- 

 woods (Miller Christy, * Birds of Essex,' p. 106). Two, male and 

 female, received in the flesh by Mr. Travis, 27th August, 1880. 

 Said to have been shot (by a man named Jeffrey) between Elmdon 

 and Arkesdon (op. cit.). A pair seen by the late Dr. E. G. Var- 

 renne on a farm near Mark's Tey {op. cit.). In the British 

 Museum collection is a nest labelled " Epping. Presented by J. 

 Gould, Esq." 



Northamptonshire. — One seen in Gore Piece, near Dudding- 

 ton, in the spring of 1869 (Lord Lilford's * Notes on Birds of 

 Northamptonshire,' p. 45). One, a female, picked up dead on a 

 fallow field near Stamford, 8th January, 1883 ('Field,' 13th 

 January, 1883). Mr. A. G. Elliott preserved it for his collection 

 (Zool. 1883). 



Nottinghamshire. — A male, shot in May, 1859, in Sherwood 

 Forest, near the western entrance to Thoresby Park, by Mr. H. 

 Wells (Sterland and Whitaker's ' Birds of Notts,' p. 12). 



Derbyshire. — " I have a note of observing a Woodchat May 

 19th, 1839, operating on a Yellow Bunting which it had firmly 

 impaled to a thorn" (Briggs, Zool. 1850, p. 2478). Mr. F. B. 

 Whitlock states that this is the only note he has of the Woodchat 

 in Derbyshire. 



Hertfordshire. — One shot near Baldock, Herts, spring of 

 1856, and preserved by Norman, birdstuffer, of Boyston (E. J. 

 Tuck, Zool. 1856, p. 5203). Another seen by Kev. H. A. 

 Macpherson near Hertford, in May, 1873 (Trans. Cumberl. and 

 Westmorl. Assoc, no. ix.). 



Bkukshire. — One in the British Museum labelled, " Beading. 

 Theo. Fisher, Esq." This is not mentioned in vol. viii. of the 

 Catalogue of Birds. 



