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Great Grey Shrike in England during the summer months is so 

 unusual, that the capture of a pair near Hailsham in the summer 

 of 1851 (Zool. 3388) might have received a passing notice. Mr. 

 Borrer might have referred to the remarkable nest of a Nuthatch 

 which was found at East Grinstead in the summer of 1871, and 

 was described and figured in ' The Field ' of Oct. 28th, 1871 : it 

 was formed in a haystack, and plastered with clay, and, when 

 cut out, weighed 11 lbs., and measured 13 in. by 8 in. at the 

 widest part. The height of the nest from the ground was 

 between five and six feet, and the lining was composed of dead 

 leaves. The description furnished by the finder of it was com- 

 municated by the late Frederick Bond, and was reproduced in 

 this journal (Zool. 1871, p. 2850). The story of the old 

 Nuthatches from Cowfold continuing to feed their young whic h 

 had been removed to Henfield, 4j miles distant, was published in 

 * The Field ' of Oct. 4th, 1873, not 1878, as misprinted on p. 84 

 of Mr. Borrer's book. 



Two more instances of the occurrence of the Tawny Pipit, 

 Anthus campestris, may be added to those mentioned pp. 105, 106 

 — namely, one at Brighton, Oct. 1876, reported by the late 

 G. Dawson Rowley, in * The Field ' of Oct. 22nd in that year ; 

 and another, also at Brighton, Oct. 23rd, 1882, as announced by 

 Mr. Thomas Parkin (Zool. 1883, p. 34). 



The Woodlark, Alauda arborea, regarded (p. 119) as " very 

 local and by no means common," may be noticed as breeding 

 annually in the neighbourhood of Uppark, in West Sussex. The 

 latest example of the Short-toed Lark known to have been cap- 

 tured in Sussex is by some oversight not mentioned (p. 113). It 

 was taken by a birdcatcher at Amberley, on the 18th July, 1888, 

 as recorded by Mr. Howard Saunders (Zool. 1888, p. 350). The 

 date of capture of the White- winged Lark, Melanocorypha sibirica, 

 accidentally omitted, was the 22nd Nov. 1869, and to the footnote 

 appended to the account of this species (p. 113) may be added 

 the words, " but the mistake was corrected by Bond himself, 

 torn. cit. f p. 2022." 



An example of the Lapland Bunting, Plectroplianes lapponica, 

 not noticed (p. 115), was caught near Brighton in Sept., 1854 

 (Zool. 1855, p. 4558). 



Mr. Borrer refers to a Sussex specimen of the Rustic 

 Bunting, Emberiza rustica (p. 117), as "the only example which 



