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INTRODUCTION. 
at Highcliffe, near Christchurch, and made a large collec- 
tion of birds ; his most valuable specimens passed into 
Hart's collection, at Christchurch. 
The Rev. C. A. Bury, of Bonchurch, wrote an account 
of the Birds of the Isle of Wight in the " Zoologist " of 
1844 and 1845. This list was afterwards published, with 
some alterations, in the " History, Topography, and 
Antiquities of the Isle of Wight," by W. H. Davenport 
Adams (1S58). 
Lieut. Sutton A. Davies, of whose untimely death from 
drowning in India we hear as we go to press, was a 
scholar at Winchester College, and contributed many 
valuable notes on county ornithology to the " Zoologist." 
In conjunction with another Wykehamist, he published 
a List of the Micro-Lepidoptera and Birds of Winchester 
in 1891. 
The late Capt. Henry Hadfield, of Ventnor, sent notes 
to the " Zoologist " on the Birds of the Isle of Wight for a 
period of many years. Some of those written in his 
extreme old age — (in 1886 he was eighty) — must be 
received with caution. 
Col. Peter Hawker was a pioneer in the pursuit and 
observation of wild fowl and game ; he was born in 
London on December 24th, 1786, and lived at Longparish 
House, on the Test, from 1802 until his death in 1853. 
From the year 181 5 he possessed a house at Keyhaven, 
near Milford, where he spent a good deal of his time 
shooting wild fowl. 
Besides his " Diary," his " Instructions to Young 
Sportsmen," contain much to interest sportsmen and 
naturalists. He was a gallant soldier, a keen gunner, and 
no mean musician. 
The Rev. C. A. Johns wrote "British Birds in their 
