BING-OUZEL. 
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I was enabled by the courtesy of ^Ir. A. Paget, of West Street, to see a handsome 
variety on 28th Jan., 1888. As it flew from a bush close under the window, I 
saw that the entire head and greater part of the nape were white, as also many 
of the primaries and part of the tail. INIr. Paget tells me that the bird was bred 
in his garden, and had been about there for two seasons, and that, in the summer 
of 1887, it mated, and assisted in rearing one brood, if not more. This is all 
the more curious as the garden is tuithin the town of Leicester, and surrounded 
by houses on all sides. I fear this is the bird I saw at Pinchen’s, and which was 
shot on the “ Freemen’s Common,” 1st Dec., 1888. If so, it must have moulted the 
white feathers of the tail, as that of this specimen is all black. Its head and nape 
are pure white, the remainder of the body much patched with white, many of 
the primaries white, bill of normal colour, but toes curiously barred with white 
at every joint. It has been preserved, and Mr. George Chamberlain, of the 
Infirmary Square, to whom it was given, has generously presented it to the 
Museum. 
In Rutland. — As in Leicestershire. 
RING-OUZEL. Turdus torquatus, Linnaeus. 
Of uncommon occurrence, rarely observed except in late autumn and spring, 
and does not appear to remain to breed now as formerly. — Mr. Babington * says 
(see p. 66, Appendix, T. R. Potter’s ‘ History and Antiquities of Charnwood 
Forest,’ hereafter referred to as ‘ Potter’) : — “ On Strawberry Hill, near Sharpley, 
in the summer of 1840, I observed three or four flying about among the rocks, 
and had a specimen brought me from the same place a few years previously.” 
Harley stated that, in his day, this bird was sparingly met with in the Forest 
of Charnwood, affecting the uncultivated lands, intersected by rough stone 
walls, near the village of 'NVhitwick, where it bred, and that, as autumn drew 
on, the old birds with their young left the bleak hills, and retired to the 
enclosures abutting thereon, where they fed on the fruit of the wild brier, 
elder, etc., shortly afterwards disappearing for the winter. He was told by a 
friend that it occasionally bred also in Market Bosworth Park. > Mr. Macaulay 
has recorded (‘ Mid. Nat.,’ 1881, p. 256) : — “ One shot, in May, 1871, by the keeper, 
in Gumley Wood. It is now in the collection of Rev, A. Matthews,” and, in a 
foot-note, “ two more specimens of the Ring-Ouzel, one at Gumley and one at 
Noseley.” Mr. Macaulay writes me upon this : — “ The Xoseley specimen is in 
the possession of Sir Arthur Hazlerigg, and was shot by his keeper ” (N. D.). 
The Gumley specimen, however, mentioned in the same note, is on the authority 
of the Rev. A. Matthews, who appears to have seen one some years previously. 
I saw one said to have been shot between Syston and Queniborough towards the 
* Afterwards the Rev. Churchill Babington, M.A., D.D., F.L.S., of Cockfield Rectory, 
Suffolk — a valued correspondent of mine, unfortunately deceased, 13th Jan., 1889, whilst this 
was going through the press. 
