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MR. J. H. GURNEY ON THE BEARDED TITMOUSE. 
(‘Birds of Suffolk,’ pp. 64, 251), known for certain. In 1886 it 
was still often seen on Oulton Broad, but in 1891 it was rarer and 
none bred there, though still regarded as an occasional winter 
visitant. In March, 1899, Mr. Howard Bunn went to Oulton, and 
saw several gunners for me, and ascertained that a small flock 
were seen on the 1st of that month by a man named Baxter who 
knows them. I once heard of a small flock in a little bay on 
Fritton Lake, but there are not a great many reeds there, and it is 
probable they have not bred there for a very long time. Mr. Page, 
the decoyman, has not seen one in a residence of twenty-eight years, 
neither has Mr. W. Lowne though often on the Lake. 
Essex. — Supposed to have nested on the Stour in 1868 
(Babington, ‘Birds of Suffolk,’ p. 65). Examples also seen in 1885, 
1886, and 18S8 (Miller Christy), and Mr. Christy thought it 
possible some might breed. 
Kent. — Mr. Douker, writing in 1889, says the Rev. B. Austen 
shot one in Monkton Marshes some years ago, and in 1865 three 
were shot near Maidstone (Prentis), but it probably ceased to breed 
before that. It was formerly found at Charlton and Deptford, 
places which are now, practically, a part of London. G. Graves 
in a work now seldom quoted (Brit. Orn. vol. iii. 1821), says in his 
time it was to be found “ in various places adjacent to London ; 
we have killed it on the side of the Surrey Canal, on Sydenham 
Common ; also on the road-side leading from Bermondsey to 
Deptford, called Blue Anchor Lane ; and have seen it in numbers 
about Erith.” Mr. A\ r . C. Martin, writing in 1854, says he has seen 
many from the reed ditches between Erith and the Reculvers 
(Mudie B. B. vol. i. p. 422); and Keulemans, writing twentjuyears 
later, says : “ Often shot near London .... I have several 
times seen the nests with old and young ones at the London 
birdstuffers.” 
Surrey. — Specimens from Elstead and Hampton Lodge (Waring 
Kidd), but long ago. In 1864 the Rev. J. C. Atkinson thought 
that it still bred (‘Ibis,’ 1865, p. 121) in Surrey. 
Sussex. — Mr. W. Borrer saw a nest which he believed to be a 
Bearded Tit’s, at Amberly, in 1862, as he informed me, or in 1860, 
as he informed Mr. Butterfield, but there is no allusion to it in bis 
book. However, as recently as 1892, Mr. Meade Waldo, who 
could not have been mistaken, saw a small flock near East Grinstead. 
