REPUTED BRITISH BIRDS. 367 



mythical statements in his " Natural History of Lancashire," etc., 

 1700. It was " a Bird all White (except only a short Red Beak) 

 about the bigness of a Pigeon " which was driven or washed 

 ashore during a violent hailstorm about 1698. His figure is 

 fairly good, but on the same plate is shown a " Brasilian Magpie," 

 apparently a Toucan, that came ashore in the same storm. 



American Darter, Ankmga anJiinga (Linn.). Poole, Dorset. 

 185 1. Cannot be proved, but the bird is not impossible. 



