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THE BIRDS OF HAMPSHIRE, 
While in the neighbourhood it destroyed several lambs, 
and devoured the carcase of a sheep that had died, to 
which it was seen frequently to resort. The skull and 
neck of this bird, after being nailed to a door, came into 
Bury's possession in 1843, he identified it as above 
mentioned. 
Another specimen, a female, was shot on Westridge 
Down, near Shorwell, in the Isle of Wight, in September, 
1872, by Mr. Joseph Jolliffe, and is now in the possession 
>f Dr. Jolliffe, of Yafford House, Shorwell. 
Concerning this specimen Captain Hadfield wrote as 
follows to the " Zoologist," in November, 1 872 : " A full- 
grown but immature bird of this rare species was shot 
on the 2 1st of September by Mr. Joseph Jolliffe, who, with 
two others, went in search of it at an early hour, it having 
been observed in that neighbourhood and at Gatcombe 
for some days." He then gives a full description of its 
plumage, and adds the following conclusive reasons for 
believing that it was an escaped bird. 
" Firsts its tameness and unwariness, though fasting, 
in allowing three men with guns so near an approach 
before taking wing .... and when but slightly wounded 
allowing itself to be readily captured. 
" Secondly, nothing being found in the stomach but the 
claw and feather of a partridge, which may have belonged 
to a wounded or dead bird. 
" Thirdly, the total loss of one of its toes, long since 
healed, looks as if the bird had been trapped. 
''Fourthly^ the abraded primary shafts and ragged 
webs, and the imperfect and disordered state of the 
plumage. . . . 
" Fifthly, its light weight, though well-nigh, if not quite, 
full-grown." 
