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THE BIRDS OF HAMPSHIRE. 
that a pair had reared their young for two years in 
succession, 1897 and 1898, in the New Forest, but he had 
no news of their welfare during the following summer. 
The Rev. G. M. Hewett, of Winchester College, informs 
us that there were nests in the county in the years 1900 
and 1902, and in May of the latter year he saw the 
young ones in the nest, which was in a hollow elm tree, 
in a countryside hedgerow, on private property. 
Mr. Witherby saw one on Burley Lawn, in the New 
Forest, on April 25th, 1903. 
Mr. Meade- Waldo has seen it in the New Forest as 
late as the end of November.^ 
Mr. Poole, of Shanklin, writes us that he has three 
specimens shot in the vicinity of that place, and in April, 
1904, there was still one of this species in the locality ; 
the same month one was picked up dead in Dungewood 
Withybed, near Shorwell, in the island, but too far gone 
to preserve. 
Mr. Jury, of Milford, informs us that he saw a hoopoe, 
mobbed by small birds, in the autumn of 1904 ; he was 
able to approach within a few yards of it. 
Other specimens are also recorded from Alresford (two), 
Wield, Ropley Vicarage, Newton Manor House, Petersfield, 
Otterbourne (in a frost), and Fawley. 
' " Victoria History of Hants." 
