304 MR. O. V. APLIN ON THE DISTRIBUTION IN GREAT BRITAIN 
one or two places where the B.-b. Shrikes still breed.” He 
mentions three pairs breeding regularly in certain localities ; and 
that to the north of Hampstead and Highgate he had often seen 
one of these Shrikes (in lit.). 
Surrey. H. L. Meyer wrote ( ‘ Coloured Illustrations of British 
Birds and their Eggs,’ 8vo. 1842, vol. i. p. 220) : “In some parts 
of Surrey the eggs are so common as to be found strung among other 
ordinary eggs, in the possession of every little village urchin.” 
Mr. J. Young writes : “ Met With close to London on the south. 
I have seen it sitting on the telegraph wires just the other side of 
Clapham Junction (five or six years ago)” (in lit.). 
Mr. Joseph Vine, of Highgate, tells me that a pair is generally 
to be seen on the hedge surrounding a chalk-pit at Guildford 
(in lit.). 
Mr. Arthur H. Macpherson informs me that in August, 1890, at 
Leatherhead, a pair used to come into a garden of the house in 
which he was living and wash in a fish-pond on the lawn. He 
adds, that they evidently had a nest in the garden, as the young 
were constantly seen ; and that the nest is reported as taken, or 
found, near Epsom in 1890, in the Epsom College Natural History 
Eeport. 
Dr. E. Hamilton (Avi-fauna of Wimbledon Common) states 
that a pair frequented a garden at Putney Hill, and had a nest in 
the hedge of an adjoining meadow. A pair or two were always to 
be seen on the lower part of the common. The observations were 
made during the ten previous years (Zool., 1881, p. 237). 
Kent. “ An annual visitor in this district [East Kent], but 
I think rather less abundant than formerly. It may, however, be 
called fairly common, breeding in thick hedges where such exist ” 
(Mr. W. Oxenden Hammond, St. Alban’s Court, Wingham, in lit.). 
“Fairly common in the neighbourhood of Bexley Heath . . . 
I have often seen the bird myself ; and last year heard of three or 
four nests being found” (Mr. P. T. Lothy, Bexley Heath, in lit.). 
Mr. Joseph Vine writes me word of two pairs which he had 
several times seen near Hythe (in lit). 
Mr. G. Bradshaw found a nest with four eggs at Hawkhurst in 
the last days of May, 1891 (in lit,.). 
Sussex. “Although decidedly local, it cannot bo called un- 
common. It may be seen occasionally between the South Downs 
