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THE BIRDS OF HAMPSHIRE. 
One at Greatham, near Liss, May 4th, 1896. (Buck- 
nill, " Zoologist." October, 1896.) 
There is also a specimen in Lord Malmesbury's collec- 
tion at Heron Court, from the county, but the date is not 
known. 
Mr. V. Willett, of Strathwell in the Isle of Wight, has 
a specimen in his collection which was procured in the 
island, and might possibly be one of those referred to 
above. 
This bird is a native of Western Asia and South-eastern 
Europe. 
F A M I L Y — Corvidce. 
Genu S — Pyrrhocorax. 
91. Pyrrhocorax graculus. Chough. 
Formerly resident in the cliffs of the Isle of Wight ; 
now no longer found there. 
Yarrell himself saw it on the Freshwater Cliffs. 
Bury, writing to the " Zoologist " in 1 844, says that 
there were one or two pairs at Freshwater, and two pairs 
between Niton and Blackgang. 
More, writing about i860, says that for two years past 
the chough has not been known to breed at Freshwater, but 
" a pair or two are still said to linger in the neighbourhood 
of Blackgang. As it is, the chough is already extinct in 
Sussex, and the time is perhaps not far distant when it will 
disappear from our cliffs as well." 
About the year 1861, Wise wrote that they were seldom 
seen on the coast of the New Forest. 
