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THE BIRDS OF HAMPSHIRE. 
Hadfield reports two from Freshwater in May, 1883,^ 
and Mr. W. T. Pearce records one from Stokes Bay, in 
October, 1884. 
Hart has two eggs in his collection which he took in 
1886, and another specimen of the bird he procured in the 
district is dated May 3rd, 1887. 
Mr. V. Willett gives us a record of one obtained in the 
Isle of Wight, July 5th, 1887. 
In July, 1888, Mr. Corbin wrote 2 that the bird had been 
seen in several places in the county during the preceding 
May. " In one instance," he says, " a pair frequented a 
wood for a week or ten days and then disappeared ; but 
during their stay they were very familiar, coming out on 
the lawn near the wood, and searching for food amongst 
the grass. Indeed, in every instance the tameness of the 
specimens was observed." 
The Portsmouth papers of August 28th, 1889, recorded 
a " very fine specimen " from Milton, near that town ; and 
Mr. Chalkley, the Winchester naturalist, received one from 
Fair Oak, near Eastleigh, on April 19th, 1890. 
Mr. Wadham has given us information of one procured 
in the island on April 28th, 1891. 
In Lord Malmesbury's collection at Heron Court are 
two specimens, one shot on the property in 1892 — Hart 
also has one in his collection dated July of the same 
year — and the other was killed about twenty-five years 
before on the estate, but the exact place is not known. 
The year 1892 was evidently marked by quite an 
immigration, for Mr. Hugh R. P. Wyatt wrote to the 
" Field " that when he was staying at Hawley Parsonage, 
near Farnborough, a hoopoe appeared on the lawn on the 
'"Zoologist." 1883. = "Zoologist." 1888. 
