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in the Local Museum, and two others are chronicled ,one on 

 23rd January 1894, and the last on 19th May 1895. At 

 Scarborough the late Alfred Roberts {op. cit. 1855, p. 4631), 

 in recording the occurrence of an adult female, mentioned it 

 as a rare bird there, while Mr. W. J. Clarke expresses a similar 

 opinion when informing me of one being obtained at Scalby 

 Ness, on 24th February 1900, and another seen the following 

 day near the Pier. 



As mentioned before, it is now but an occasional visitant 

 at Flamborough ; several specimens occurred there between 

 1865 and 1875, and Mr. Thomas Boynton states (MS. 1880), 

 that it was occasionally obtained in Bridlington Bay. One 

 instance only is noted near Spurn, on 22nd November 1893, 

 when, as recorded by the late J. Cordeaux {Nat. 1894, p. 41), 

 an example was taken at Kilnsea, which had an eel in its mouth. 



This species is less often found on inland waters than its 

 congener, preferring its oceanic habitat, though it was noted 

 by Fothergill of Carr End, Askrigg, as having occurred at 

 Hawes about 1820 ; near Boroughbridge one is mentioned 

 in October 1849, by J. C. Garth {Zool. 1849, P- 2353) ; on the 

 Hambleton Hills, according to the late J. Harrison, a specimen 

 was found in a snowstorm in 1853 ; and at Thainston-on-Don 

 one is reported as having been shot in March 1877 {Field, 

 17th March 1877), but it may be well to observe that inland 

 records, as a rule, should be received with caution. 



GANNET. 



Sula bassana (Z.). 



Bird of passage on the coast. Has occasionally occurred inland 

 as a straggler. 



The first mention of the Gannet in Yorkshire appears 

 to refer to the specimen taken near Halifax in 183 1, and 

 noticed by Thomas Allis in his Report in 1884, thus : — 



Sula bassana. — Gannet — Occurs at Flamborough and Scarborough ; 

 it has been taken at Thorne, also one near Doncaster ; they are picked 

 up on the Wolds and sea borders every now and then when gorged with 

 food ; one has been taken near Huddersfield : near Halifax it has 



