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[WHITAKER 
the Tufted Duck nested as far back as the “ thirties/’ the 
earliest record of their doing so in England ; and here, 
besides Wild Duck, have been shot Shoveler, Teal, Wigeon, 
Pochard, Garganey, Pintail, Scaup, Scoter, Smew, Red- 
breasted Merganser, Golden-eye, Goosander and Spoonbill, 
while Bitterns, Ospreys, and other rare birds have been noted. 
A total of 158 species of birds has, in fact, been observed 
by Mr. Whitaker within a radius of one mile of the Lodge, 
while the only British example of the Egyptian Nightjar was 
shot by his keeper just outside this radius. Within the 
quaint old house is an extensive collection of albinos and 
varieties of birds and animals, which total over 500, this 
having long been a favourite subject with Mr. Whitaker, who 
had a note on it in the Zoologist as long ago as 1872. 
Mr. Whitaker, who was educated at Uppingham, is J.P. for 
his county and the borough of Mansfield, and Vice-President 
of the Selborne Society and F.Z.S. He has written a great 
deal, the earliest printed communication we have noted being 
in the Zoologist for 1871 (pp. 2803-4), and his notes and 
observations in that journal, as well as in British Birds , the 
Field , Land and Water , Country Life , Country Side , Country- 
side Monthly , Shooting Times , the Ornithologist , etc., from 
that date to the present time are very numerous, although 
not many of them are lengthy enough for us to detail below. 
Many will be found under Notts in the contemplated 
Geographical Section of this work, however. 
In addition to his bird books, he has written a valuable 
Descriptive List of the Deer Parks and Paddocks of England 
(1892), and Nimrod , Ramrod, and Fishing-Rod Tales (1909). 
1872. A Visit to the Freshwater Cliffs. (Zoologist, pp. 3109-11.) 
1876. Ornithological Notes from Perthshire. (Op. cit. pp. 5100-3.) 
1879. [With W. J. Sterland.] Descriptive List of the Birds of Nottingham- 
shire. Mansfield : 1879. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. 71. Comprises 238 species. Now 
scarce. 
1885. Abnormal Plumage. (Trans. Norf. and Norw. Nat. Soc. iv. pp. 61-66.) 
1904. Scribblings of a Hedge-row Naturalist. Nottingham : 1904. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. 294, portrait and illustrations. 
