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Mr. Hart has specimens from the Forest, and Kelsall 
has noted it in Milton parish in June, 1904. Mr. 
J. H. Gurney has a specimen from Bournemouth in his 
collection. 
In Wolmer Forest it has been met with by Colonei 
Irby ; in the Alton Museum there is a specimen from this 
district dated 1847, and in the British Museum are two 
nests from the same neighbourhood. 
Colonel Fielden wrote to the '-'Zoologist" in 1872, 
that it vvas abundant in the furze-covered commons 
included in the area of Wolmer Forest. At the end 
of April this year, when walking over the forest with 
Mr. Howard Saunders, we disturbed seven or eight of 
them within a radius of fifty yards I have noticed 
them distributed over .... all the furze commons in the 
neighbourhood. 
In Dr. Rake's collection of eggs is a nest taken in 
June, 1863, in the neighbourhood of Frensham, on the 
Surrey border. 
Dr. Sclater has seen it some years ago in the gorse of 
the Holybourne Downs,i and Munn has observed it near 
Basingstoke. Miss Rose Kingsley mentions Hartford 
Bridge Flats, near Eversley, as another locality .2 
A nest with five eggs was found at Stubbington, near 
Fareham, a few years ago. (Mason.) 
In the Isle of Wight Bury says ^ it has been seen on 
Shanklin Down and on St. Boniface Down ; two were 
killed in March, 1844, by R. Loe in Bordwood Forest ; 
Mr. Butler has obtained it at Yarmouth, and it has been 
found on Bridleston Common, near Newport. 
' " Hants Court Guide." 1897. 
= "English Illustrated Magazine." April, 1892. 
3 " Notes on the Birds of the Isle of Wight." " Zoologist." 1844. 
