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THE BIRDS OF HAMPSHIRE. 
One at Avington in December, 1897 (G. W. Smith, 
" Zoologist," 1898), a remarkable date. 
An adult female, picked up in a dying condition at 
Shanklin, on May 3rd, 1899 (Poole). 
Hart has an egg in his collection, which he took in the 
neighbourhood of Christchurch, and there is no doubt 
the bird would nest in the county if it were not so cruelly 
persecuted. 
Examples have also occurred at Worting and at Beau- 
lieu, and there is a pair in the Earl of Malmesbury's 
collection at Heron Court. 
The specimen in the Alton Museum came from Christ- 
church. 
Family — Laniida. 
Genus — Lanius. 
55. Lanius excubitor. Great Grey Shrike. 
A regular winter visitor, in very small numbers. 
We should scarcely have ventured thus to classify this 
bird, but for the evidence of Mr. Meade-Waldo, who 
writes as follows in the Victoria History : " I have rarely 
failed to see one or more at different times during the 
winter on the Beaulieu and Hill Top plains " (in the New 
Forest). 
There are numerous records from all parts of the 
county and island. 
Gilbert White writes, in the thirty-ninth Letter to 
Pennant (November, 1773), that a great ash-coloured 
butcher-bird was shot last winter in Tisted Park. 
A male was shot by Mr. Butler, of Yarmouth, from a 
