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year 1875, obtained ten eggs from the Duke of Northumberland, 

 and reared them all under a hen. They were all turned out on 

 Witley Common, in order to improve the local stock, and the 

 experiment undoubtedly did some good, but not for very long. 

 The young birds would not answer the call of their foster-mother. 

 The species, in Mr. Webb's opinion, is practically extinct now 

 (1900) in the Witley district {in lit). 



Watee-Eail (jR. aquaticus). Mr. Crowley had two clutches 

 taken by Smither at Frensham in 1866 and 1867. 



MooE-HEN {G. chloropus). — Mr. Crowley had a light buif 

 specimen from near Croydon. 



Thick-knee {(E. scolopax). — Observed near Caterham last 

 spring by the Editor of this journal (in lit). 



Oysteecatchee (H. ostralegus). — Mr. Bryan Hook has one 

 from Frensham pond (' Farnham and its Surroundings,' p. 116). 



Geey Phalaeope {P. fulicarius). — Mr. Crowley had one 

 picked up dead at Waddon in 1890. 



Woodcock (S. rusticola). — Mr. F. B. P. Long informs me 

 that it breeds regularly in the Bagshot woods ; a few nests are 

 found annually, and the young have been seen as early as 

 April 1st. He has an egg taken some years ago in Bagshot 

 Park {in lit.). Mr. J. D, Salmon had eggs from Godalming 

 taken there in 1849 (MS. catalogue). Although not generally a 

 good season for cock, fifteen were seen and nine bagged in one 

 day not far from Chipstead in the early j^art of December, 1900. 



Snipe {G. coelestis). — Mr. Long tells me that Chobham 

 Common was a great place for Snipe forty or fifty years ago, 

 and a good many are still sometimes shot there {in lit.). Mr. 

 Crowley had scores of clutches from near Frensham between 

 1862 and 1882, mostly in the 'sixties. There was a nest this 

 spring quite close to the Frensham Pond hotel. 



Dunlin {T. alpina). — Mr. Bryan Hook has a specimen from 

 Frensham pond ('Farnham and its Surroundings,' p. 115). 



CuELEw {N. arquata). — In this Journal (1900, p. 382), a nest 

 of the Curlew is stated to have been taken in the spring of 1896 

 on Chobham Common with some eggs, two of which were still 

 in existence. As this was the only definite occurrence of the 

 breeding of this species in the county, I have made the very 

 closest enquiry into the record. The result has been very satis- 



