Notes. 451'> 



The Honey Buzzard (Fernis apivonts). At the sale on 

 February 14th, 1915^, of surplus furniture, &c., at Dauntsey House, a 

 good specimen of this rare bird mounted by W. Coleman, of Marlborough, 

 the case bearing la})els l)oth on front and back stating that it was shot 

 in the West Woods, near Marlborough, in June, 1885, was purchased 

 for the Society for lOs. This is certainly the bird mentioned on ]). 91 of 

 Smith's JJirds of Wilts, but the date given there — " 18")') " — is evidently 

 a misi)rint for 1885. Six other specimens are recorded by Smith as 

 having been shot in Wiltshire. 



HHS. Genealogical Record of the Mundy Family. 



Mr. Frank Waylen has recently presented the Society with a small 

 MS. volume, which contains the greater part — about five-sevenths of the 

 whole — of a remarkable genealogical record, devised upon a very unusual 

 plan. 



The work consisted originally, according to the old numbering, of 

 33")/o^ia, or leaves, of which the first 92 had, presumably, already been 

 lost when the remainder were first bound up, some hundred years or so 

 from now. The edges upon this occasion were cut to a most deplorable 

 . extent, the headings in i)articular upon which the proper understanding 

 of the MS. largely depends being in some instances completely sheared 

 away. The volume thus obtained was re-bound, ])robably within the 

 last ten years, in a very handsome piece of patterned leather, such as 

 might have been obtained from an old chair back or other leather- 

 covered furniture. 



The object of the record was to set out the names of the whole of the 

 descendants, male and female, of one Hugh Mundy, who was born, it 

 is to be supposed, about the middle of the fifteenth century, and dwelt at 

 Biddesden farm in the parish of Ludgershall, Co. Wilts, close to the 

 Hampshire border, adjacent to the Collingbournes and Chute, and 

 with Andover not far away. 



The work was probably compiled at various dates between 1580 and 

 the close of the century, possibly by Mr. Henry Mundy, also of Biddesden, 

 who died 20th June, 1(504, certainly by some member of Mr. Henry 

 Mundy's branch of the family, his wife, sister, nephew, or son. The 

 last date which a])i)ears in it is, apparently, 6 July, 1012 (p. 390), which 

 if text and additions are ])y the same hand, of course precludes Mr. 

 Henry Mundy's aiitliorship ; but ii|m)ii this question of script, though 

 the whole is uniform in charactt-T, it is difficult to form a di'tinitc 

 opinion. 



It is proposed to print part, or the whole, of thu MS. hereafter, and 

 some specimens of it will serve, better than any detailed explanation 

 licre, to exj'laiii llic siii.uMilarit>- of its ])lan. 



As to till' lii>t<>i> of tlir voliiiiic luttliing is stated. It ajtjirars fn.m 

 an inscription to have siibsei|Ueiit i\ I'elonged to Mr. l|eiir\- No\'s, 

 l.M.sibly of Choi,!.., -ton, .Mi.l aI>o of the kin of Hugh Mundy. A.S..M. 



Dipper or Water Ousel at Wilton. In s<i//s'.nr>/ JourtviL 



Mareii Hth, I'Jl:^, Mr. (i. 1(. Kendle uotes that a I )ii'i'er was .seen on tli.- 

 river at W ilton for some tine on j-'ebruary 2»;th, i;»l-J. 



