. The birds of Essex: a contribution to the natural history of the country. Birds. COR —NUTCRA CKER. 131. garded as rare and accidental stragglers. The first of the two follow- ing records of its occurrence in Essex may, from the description given, be accepted, but the second is very doubtful. Mr. John Cordeaux, a member of the British As- sociation Migration Com- mittee, writes as follows (40. 185): " In a migration sche- dule received this morning from Mr. Owen Boyle, of the Landguard Light-house, is the following entry :— ^ April 2nd, 1888 : Two Crows put in an appear- ance,
. The birds of Essex: a contribution to the natural history of the country. Birds. COR —NUTCRA CKER. 131. garded as rare and accidental stragglers. The first of the two follow- ing records of its occurrence in Essex may, from the description given, be accepted, but the second is very doubtful. Mr. John Cordeaux, a member of the British As- sociation Migration Com- mittee, writes as follows (40. 185): " In a migration sche- dule received this morning from Mr. Owen Boyle, of the Landguard Light-house, is the following entry :— ^ April 2nd, 1888 : Two Crows put in an appear- ance, ; larger than Jackdaws ; they had red beaks, and legs, and went north-west.' " In Stifford and lis Neigh- bourhood, by the Rev. W. Palin, occurs the following chough, %. under West Tilbury:—" There were at that time [1840] 'the Chough,' and of •course the Crow and Herons. All (except the Crow) are happily being frightened away by the ; There is probably some mistake here. West Tilbury is not a place at all likely ever to have been frequented by Choughs. Mr. Palin, however, again alludes to the subject in More About Stifford (p. 45), saying that the Chough was " common enough here onl}' thirty years ; Nutcracker : Nucifraga caryocatactes. A rare and irregular straggler to Britain during autumn. The only records I have of its occurrence in Essex are the following : Dr. Bree writes (29. May 7, 1870), " I have lately heard of three unrecorded cases of the capture of Nutcrackers in this neighbourhood in the month of September, ten or twelve years ago. They were all shot in the same locality and about the same time, I saw one of them a few weeks ; One of the speci- mens thus recorded is now in the Colchester Museum, to which it was presented by the late Dr. Maclean, as I understand on the authority of Dr. Laver. The following interesting note from Mr C. NichoUs of Bovill's Hall, Ardleigh, who has another of the specimens,
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