Journal of Proceedings. lxiii
at Sampford, by Barker, the Postman. It was apparently in a fatigued
state, but lived two days in my (Mr. Travis's) possession, during which
time it ate a few slugs, and sometimes used its hooked bill to assist it in
climbing about the cage. The specimen was sold to Mr. Burrell, of
Littlebury.
(2.) November 9th, 1879. Fulmar Petrel (Procellaria glacialis), taken
by G. Pavitt, Esq., Battle's Bridge, near Chelmsford, and now in his
possession.
(3.) December 5th, 1879. Great Bustard (Otis tarda), shot by Mr.
Pertwee on what is called the "Main" near Chelmsford, and
(4.) February 6th, 1880. Another Bustard shot by the foreman to
Mr. Jonas, Manor Farm, West Wickham, Cambridgeshire, and now in
the latter's possession. Has any other naturalist within the last fifty
years been so fortunate as to receive two English specimens of the Great
Bustard within so short a period ?
[These specimens are, of course, the birds referred to in Mr. Christy's
paper, "Transactions," pp. 59 and 62.—Ed.]
(5.) August 27th, 1880. A pair of Woodchat Shrikes (Lanius auricu-
latus), shot by a man named Jeffrey, between Elmdon and Arksden.
A boy driving sheep into Walden was accosted by Jeffrey, who had a gun.
He gave the birds to the boy, remarking that they were "a pretty pair,
and perhaps the bird-stuffer might give something for them." I received
them within two hours of their death, quite fresh and hardly stiff. These
are the first specimens of this very rare bird I have heard of as occurring
in Essex.
(6.) 1880. Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus), taken
by the gamekeeper to Squire Wilkes, of Lofts Hall, in whose possession
it now is.
(7.) November, 1880. Peregrine Falcon, a young bird trapped by
one of Lord Braybrooke's keepers at a moorhen, on which it had been
feeding, near the Debden Road, Saffron Walden. Two other Peregrines
killed in the neighbourhood are now in my hands.
(8.) 1880. Two Merlins (Falco AEsalon), killed by Mr.
Chipperfield, of Newport, near Saffron Walden.
(9.) November 1st, 1880. Two Black-throated Divers (Colymbus
arcticus), taken at Southend, and now in the possession of Mrs. Ackland,
of Saffron Walden.
(10.) November, 1880. Sclavonian Grebe (Podiceps auritus), taken at
Southend, and now in possession of Mrs. Ackland, Saffron Walden.
(11.) November 12th, 1880. Great Grey Shrike (Lanius excubitor), a
good female specimen, shot by Mr. H. Rolfe, of Clavering, and now in
his possession.
(12.) June 27th, 1879. A Lesser Redpole's nest (Linota linaria), taken
by a boy named Rushforth out of some fir trees by the roadside close
to Shortgrove Park. It contained young, which were brought to me,