98 Mr. A. Newton on Mr. J. Wolley's Discovery 
they have ever seen Sidensvans before. As I have also told 
you, it seemed to be known to a very few wood's-men on that 
side of the country under the name of e Korwa-rastas 3 or ‘Korwa- 
lintu 3 (Ear-bird). It had occasionally attracted their attention, 
as having feathers on its head standing up like squirrel's ears. 
It was not till the second year of my stay here that I ascertained 
this with certainty. The first summer I believed it to be 
‘ Harrhi, 3 a bird coming in bad seasons, and properly the Com¬ 
mon Jay ; but it seems that this name is also really sometimes 
given to Sidensvans, and therefore, as well as for other reasons, 
I am inclined to believe that the bird is only here very occa¬ 
sionally. * * * * 
* * * “ The young Waxwing I should wish our old friend 
Yarrell to describe, for I think it would give him pleasure. He 
might exhibit a nest and eggs at the same time with a pair of 
the birds in breeding-plumage to the Zoological Society; but, 
for special reasons, I should wish the Waxwing not to be talked 
about till the spring.” 
Mr. Yarrell's death having prevented Mr. Wolley's wish from 
being carried out, the announcement of the discovery was com¬ 
municated to the Zoological Society, in the short though very 
comprehensive paper I have before alluded to, at their meeting 
on the 24th March, 1857, the specimens being exhibited by my 
brother Edward. They consisted of two nests—one of which (the 
original of the figure in the f Illustrated Proceedings '*) was 
afterwards deposited, with an egg, in the British Museum, while 
the other was presented (also with an egg) to the museum at 
Norwich, the authorities of which had for sometime past taken a 
warm interest in Mr. Wolley's researches,—a pair of birds in their 
breeding-plumage, the nestlingbefore mentioned (all three of which 
are now at Norwich), and some seven or eight examples of the 
egg. Of these latter, the two figured in the plate in the f Pro¬ 
ceedings ' were subsequently sold at Mr. Stevens's rooms, and 
purchased by Sir William Milner, in whose collection they still 
remain. A third, sold at the same time, became the property of 
Mr. Henry Walter; and specimens were given to Mr. Wilmot, 
Mr. W. H. Simpson, and myself. 
* Illust. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1857, Aves, pi. cxxii. 
