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innocence and truth over perjury and slander" are accompanied
by various implements symbolic of the "Industrious Classes of
the Community" and of the "Liberty of the Press," with views
of street processions bearing banners and lists, presumably
tabulating those towns (which include Westham), newspapers,
public companies, etc., which avowedly supported the Queen's
cause.
But in spite of this victory, Queen Caroline was denied by
her husband, "the first gentleman of Europe" so called, her
undoubted right to be crowned with him in Westminster Abbey
in January 1821; and less than a month after, the poor lady
died.
Queen Caroline, born 1768, died 1821.
NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS
Pied Flycatcher at Chingford. On April 17th, 1946, I saw a cock pied
flycatcher (Muscicapa atricapilla L.) on the edge of Hawk Wood, Epping
Forest, where the wood borders upon Chingford Plain. The weather was
dull and chilly with a northerly wind. The bird made very short flights in
three oak trees which were coming into leaf, but did not leave the trees as
spotted flycatchers so frequently do.
A few years ago I saw a hen bird of the species in early autumn between
the Royal Forest Hotel and the Warren Pond. In the spring of 1946 three
cock birds were seen on Chingford Plain close to the place where I saw the
bird in April. In view of these and other records of the species in this area
it would seem certain that some birds usually pass here on the spring and
autumn migrations.
Mr. W. E. Glegg in A History of the Birds of Essex records that Mr. C. H.
Roper saw a pied flycatcher in Epping Forest on May 5th, 1926. Miss G.
Lister states that a male was watched in the garden of Pollards, Loughton,
by Miss Playne on May 5th, 1932. Mr. W. A. Wright through Mr. Bernard
Ward furnishes the following records: May 4th, 1941, Woodford Sewage
Farm, one adult male; April 24th, 1943, Chingford, near Hawk Wood,
three seen by Dr. D, G. Tucker; August 27th, 1943, Royal Forest Hotel,
Chingford, two, one a male; September 17th, 1943, Broxbourne, one male;
October 2nd, 1944, Sewardstone, one in brown plumage, seen by Mr. P.
Rumsey.
J. Ross.
Mandarin Duck in Epping Forest. A drake of this species arrived on
Connaught Water, Epping Forest, about November 15th, 1947, and was
still there at the beginning of February. The species is kept on some waters
in London parks and on private waters in the Home Counties. It is not
included in the list of British Birds.
J. Ross.
Sparrow-Hawk in Buckhurst Hill garden. During the cold spell in
February, 1947, a sparrow-hawk was frequently observed in the garden of
102. Forest Edge. At first it perched on a fence quite close to the house,
then one afternoon a dreadful commotion was heard among the tits. The
sparrow-hawk had swooped down and seized one of their number, which