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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mb1848" data-source="post: 3337712" data-attributes="member: 31036">Reading the Hasting's rarities article I thought they had been unfair to the Nicoll record.  *There is one other Alpine Ring Ouzel, apart from the one in Appendix A, andthat was a female shot near Brighton, Sussex, on 29th March 1913 (Brit. Birds, 7:117); we have no direct evidence that it was connected with the Hastings Rarities,but as the record is similarly lacking in information, and as it was published by J. B.Nichols for whom it provided a mate for the Hastings male already in his possession,we think it is better discarded.But then I read he was a friend of Meinhartzhagen and kept his skin collection in Cairo .</blockquote>