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THE BIRDS OF HAMPSHIRE. 
Freshwater, in the Isle of Wight, and one of the young 
birds of the second brood in September, 1856 (More). 
This clutch was sold with the Bidwell collection in 1904, 
together with the other clutch mentioned by Yarrell. 
Gilbert White wrote ^ : — " Farmer Hoare's son shot a 
hen woodchat, or small butcher-bird, as it was washing at 
Wellhead, attended by the cock " ; and again ^ of another 
that was sent to him, but may not, perhaps, have been 
procured in the county. 
It is a bird that Pennant at the time of publishing his 
"British Zoology" had not seen ; and was considered by 
Gilbert White — as were all the shrikes — a rare bird in 
these parts. 
It is found in Central and Southern Europe and North 
Africa, and eastwards as far as Persia. 
F AM I LY — A mpelidcs. 
Genus — Ampelis. 
59. Ampelis garrulus. Waxwing. 
An irregular winter visitor from the Arctic regions, 
which has occurred in all parts of the county and the Isle 
of Wight. 
Gilbert White mentions in his twelfth letter to Pennant 
that a male specimen was shot in his neighbourhood in 
the severe weather of January, 1767. 
Longcroft records one as occurring at Emsworth in 
the winter of 1779-80. 
* " Gleanings in Natural History." 2nd Series, by E, Jesse. 
* " Letter xxv. to Pennant. Selborne. August 30th, 1769. 
