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ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES FROM SURREY. 

 By John A. Bucknill, M.A. 



(Concluded from p. 231.) 



Osprky (Pandion haliaetus). — Mr. Styan tells me that Mr. W. 

 Stafford informed him that the specimen referred to in my ' Birds 

 of Surrey ' (p. 200) as having been shot at Abbot's Pond, was 

 killed there in 1840. This specimen is in the Charterhouse 

 Collection. Another, which was in Mr. Stafford's possession, 

 and which was probably one of those sold apart from the main 

 collection, was obtained at Forked Pond, near Thursley. This 

 is one of some three or four specimens which were sold at Stafford's 

 sale without locality or date, and were not included in the type 

 collection sold to Charterhouse in 1891. 



Night Heron (Nycticorax griseus). — A fine adult male was 

 shot at Ditton Marsh on June 12th, 1855, and preserved by F. 

 Yearley (F. Styan and J. Mitchell). 



Little Bittern (Ardetta minuta). — A male was shot on the 

 Thames, at West Molesey, about the year 1870, and preserved by 

 Mr. F. Yearley (F. Styan and J. Mitchell). 



Bittern (Botaurus stellaris). — Mr. Styan and Mr. Mitchell 

 had notes of the following specimens not hitherto recorded : — 



1. A female shot in 1844 by Mr. W. Simmons near New Mill, 

 Haslemere. 



2. A male shot at Woodside, Esher, in 1855, in October. 



3. A male on the Mole, near Molesey, in the same month of 

 the same year. 



The two latter were preserved by Mr. F. Yearley. Mr. F. H. 

 Birley informs me that he saw a specimen, shot on Dec. 30th, 

 1884, on a now drained mill-pond at Lingfield (in lit.). 



White Spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia). — Mr. Gordon Dal- 

 gliesh informs me that he has seen a specimen which was shot on 

 a small pond at Claudon Park on Nov. 26th, 1901 ; it was a female, 



