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Parkin (Thomas), nat. 1845 
Mr. Thomas Parkin, well known as an oologist, is the 
second son of the Rev. John Parkin, vicar of Halton, St. 
Clement, in Hastings, and was born at the vicarage on 
February 3 , 1845 . He was educated at Rugby and Trinity 
College, Cambridge (B.A. 1868 , M.A. 1871 ), and was called 
to the Bar, Inner Temple, in 1874 . He has travelled ex- 
tensively in America, Australia, and the East, and has since 
1887 resided at Fairseat, High Wickham, Hastings, where 
he has important collections of eggs, including extensive 
series of the Rapt ores and Tubinares, and a valuable orni- 
thological library. He is a Fellow of the Linnean and many 
other learned societies, and has been a member of the B.O.U. 
since 1880 . He has been for a long series of years president 
of the Hastings and St. Leonards Natural History Society, 
and has written many papers and pamphlets on zoology, 
being especially interested in the history of the Great Auk, 
and has contributed several notices of rare birds to the 
Zoologist and British Birds. 
1878. [With J. H. Gurney.] Birds. [In the Natural History of Hastings 
and St. Leonards.'] Hastings : 1878. 
Supplement I v 1883. Supplement II., 1888. Supplement III., 
1898. 
1906. Visit to the Heronry at Alder Shaw, Beckley, Sussex. ( Hastings 
and E. Sussex Nat. i. pp. 42-3, pi. v.) 
1907. The Sardinian Warbler in Sussex. A New British Bird. (Brit. 
Birds, i. pp. 86-8 ; Zoologist, p. 274.) 
1908. The Sardinian Warbler in East Sussex. An addition to the British 
List of Birds. ( Hastings and E. Sussex Nat. i. pp. 115-16, pi. x.) 
On the Heronry at Windmill Hill Place, Hastings. ( T.c . pp. 117-20, 
pi. xi.) 
1909. Black-throated Thrush in Kent. (Brit. Birds, ii. pp. 378-80, pi. ; 
Bull. B.Q.C. xxiii. pp. 57-8.) 
Among the Nesting-boxes at Westfield Place, Sussex, May 30th, 
1908. (Hastings and E. Sussex Nat. i. pp. 178-80.) 
1910. Notes on some East Sussex Ravens. (T.c. pp. 200-204, pi. xxvii- 
xxviii.) 
*1911. The Great Auk. A record of sales of Birds and Eggs by Public 
