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THE BIRDS OF HAMPSHIRE. 
This bird was shown to Mr. Howard Saunders, who 
wrote in the " Field," shortly afterwards : — "It is a 
thoroughly adult bird ; in fact, among a somewhat large 
series in my collection, there is only one specimen which 
shows a trifle less black on the outer web of the sixth 
primary. The hood, characteristic of summer plumage, 
has now given place to irregular dusky black markings 
on the nape, while, as Mr. Coles observes, the primaries 
are abraded, especially their tips 
" Reverting to the occurrences of adults in the British 
islands, I may mention that only two examples are known 
to me 
" Immature birds are of not infrequent — though 
irregular — occurrence ; but Mr. Coles may be congratulated 
on the acquisition of a third adult British specimen." 
Another adult specimen was found dead in a field near 
Bournemouth on the 13th of the same month, and came 
into the possession of Mr. F. Coburn, of Birmingham, 
who sent the following particulars to the " Zoologist " in 
January, 1892 : — 
" The plumage on the whole of the under parts 
was beautifully suffused with salmon-pink ; which was 
observable for several days after the bird had been skinned 
and mounted The tail is not so acutely forked 
as in Yarrell's figure, while the sharp angle to the lower 
mandible was not at all observable in the fresh bird, 
but is beginning to appear as the bill dries." 
Mr. Hart has a beautifully marked immature example 
obtained near Christchurch on September 26th, 1896. 
Another specimen in the first year's plumage was shot 
at Christchurch, in November, 1903, by Mr. E. A. Dobr^e.^ 
^ Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, No. CV., March i6th, 1904. 
