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more than once seen living individuals near Cockermouth. 

 Dickinson of Wright Green showed me two birds procured in 

 the vicinity. The late George Mawson obtained an example 

 shot at Dovenby Hall in December 1882. Near Maryport, a 

 bird-catcher named Fletcher caught a Great Grey Shrike with 

 his limed twigs in November 1860. At Wigton a handsome 

 two-barred Shrike was shot on the 14th of April 1866. Time 

 would fail me if I were to set forth every single occurrence of 

 this Shrike in the north of Cumberland. One of the finest adult 

 males that have been secured in Lakeland was shot at Kirklinton 

 in December 1883, and was shown to me in the flesh by the 

 late Sam Watson, who stated that two or three others had pre- 

 viously passed through his hands. I observed a single bird in 

 the Willow Holme in January 1883; this was unfortunately 

 shot. 



Another very blue example came under observation in 

 February 1884, when I found the suspended remains of a 

 Fieldfare which it had impaled in a wood near Carlisle. Dr. 

 Heysham had met with three or four examples prior to 1796, 

 and T. C. Heysham knew the species well. The latter wrote 

 in 1829 that, during the previous five or six years, the Cinereous 

 Shrike had visited the neighbourhood of Carlisle pretty regularly, 

 scarcely a winter passing without one or more having been 

 either seen or obtained. ' Its arrival,' he says, ' apparently is 

 very irregular, as it has occurred during the above period in 

 almost every month from October to April. On the 11th of 

 April 1828 I saw one near Stainton, and on the 7th of March 

 it was observed close to Burgh-by-Sands, and pursued nearly 

 the whole day, but without success.' 1 In 1844 he notified to 

 Mr. Gurney the capture of a Grey Shrike in October that year ; 

 one of his loose notes records another, killed at Etterby in 

 November 1848. More recently a single-barred bird was shot 

 by Mr. W. Little in November 1888 near Cotehill, where he 

 saw another exactly a year later. In the neighbourhood of the 

 Solway, Mr. Ffloukes killed a Grey Shrike at Bockliffe prior 

 to 1883. At Burgh, Mr. Tremble's grandfather shot two of 

 these Shrikes, which had been compelled by very severe weather 

 1 Phil. Mag., ii. pp. 110, 111. 



