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procured by the Eev. B. Austen from the Isle of Thanet. 

 Mr. W. Prentis mentions one in the parish of Upchurch, 

 near Rainham. The Eev. C. H. Fielding gives Cobham 

 as a locality in which it had been found. 



One was seen at Boxley, Kent, by the Rev. H. W. 

 Trower, on Sundaj^ September 9, 1894, in Major Best's 

 park. This, no doubt, was the bird that was secured in 

 Mote Park on September 10, 1894. Mr. H. Elgar gives 

 the following measurements of it : Length 23'6 ; tail 10"3; 

 wing 19'2 ; tarsus 2*3 ; culmen 16. It was an immature 

 female. 



Family PELECANID^. 



Genus PHALACROCORAX, Brisson. 



CORMORANT. 



Phalacrocorax carlo (Linnseus). S.N., i., p. 216 



(1766). 



Coal Goose. 



This powerful diver and swimmer may be seen more 

 often than obtained along the coast of Kent. It is only 

 an occasional visitor, and the majority of specimens pro- 

 cured are immature birds. 



It is included in Boys' Birds of Sandivicli, 1792. 

 The Rev. J. Pemberton Bartlett, writing in 1844, states 

 that it is rare, "a specimen shot in Romney Marsh is pre- 

 served in Dr. F. Plomley's collection." Mr. G. Dowker, 

 in the Birds of East Kent, says : " The Cormorant is 

 only a visitor to our shores." 



