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Asliburne, in the fine weather of June 1904 (Jourdain). 

 Devon : Generally distributed (Bignell) ; considered general 

 (Bracken) ; Wrangaton 1908 (de la Garde) Halsworthy 

 1912 (Bracken}. Essex: In houses, Walthamstow (Campion). 

 Hunts : Selborne, in the time of Gilbert White evidently 

 common, 1789 (White)-, Winchester (Chitty). Isle of Wight : 

 Occasionally in houses at Newport and probably throughout 

 the island (Morey) ; frequent in bakehouses, but less common 

 than formerly owing to the improved ovens that have been 

 introduced (Poole). Hertfordshire: Radlett, a male in a house 

 in November 1915 (Boycott) St. Albans, in kitchen at The 

 Grange, 1900 (HopJcinson). Lancashire : Darwen (Birks) ; 

 Bootle (Hughmans) ; Cartmel (Sopp) ; Liverpool, not so 

 common as formerly (Sopp) ; Manchester (Chappell) Rivington 

 Pike, captured in the open (Harrison) ; Southport, common 

 in hothouses in Hesketh Park (Sopp). Lincolnshire : Caistor, 

 and Bottesford Manor House formerly (Peacock) ; Market 

 Easen, Louth, and Burgh-on-Bain (Carter). London: Hoxton, 

 in a bakehouse (Milton) ; Bayswater, in a house (Pascoe). 

 Middlesex: Teddington 1897 (Lucas) Bedford Park, Chiswick 

 ('Entom./ 1886, p. 66). Isle of Man: Laxey 1904 (Shaw); 

 Ballaraugh 1904 (Shaw) ; Ballaugh 1904 (C assail). Norfolk: 

 (Edwards). Notts: Nottingham (Carr). Ox-on: Oxford (Lucas). 

 Somerset: Batheaston (Blathivayt). Staffordshire: (Jourdain). 

 Suffolk : Ipswich, bakehouses, etc. (Morley) ; Yarmouth, in 

 some bakehouses very common (Paget) ; Colchester, in a 

 bakehouse (Hanvood). Surrey: Abundant at bakers' shops 

 fit East Grin stead (Burr) ; Kingstou-on-Thames 1898 (Lucas)-, 

 Bisley 1899 (Flcklin) ; Haslemere, in a bakehouse, 1908 

 (Dalgliesh). Sussex: Not uncommon in old houses (Burr); 

 Bognor (G-uermonprez) ; Shqreham (Colthrup); Guestling 1901 

 (Bloomfield) ; Hastings district, not uncommon in cottages but 

 less common than formerly (Bloomfield about 1902). York- 

 shire: Huddersfield, etc. (Porritt). 



SCOTLAND. Eenfreic shire : A female, Kilbarchan (Stewart) ; 

 Paisley, in mills and bakehouses (Stewart). Writing from 

 Paisley 1 September 1902, Stewart says : 



" Five or six years ago a colony made its appearance on a 

 moor near here, which had been acquired by the Glasgow 

 Corporation as a dumping ground for the city refuse. They 

 multiplied exceedingly and by the end of the summer to walk 

 over the place was to be "deered" with their whittling. The 

 following winter seems to have killed them all off, as not a 

 whistle has been heard since." 



On 25 June 1907 dozens were heard chirping in an old 



