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One picked up dead off Lundy Island, 1829. Moore, 

 " Catalogue of the Web-footed Birds of Devon ; " " Mag. 

 Nat. Hist.," 1837, p. 3G1, and "Orn. South Devon.," p. 293. 



One taken alive, Waterford Harbour, May 1834, lived 

 about five months in confinement : preserved in the 

 Museum of Trinity College, Dublin. Thompson, P. Z. S., 

 1835, p. 79, and " Nat. Hist. Ireland, Birds," vol. iii. p. 238. 



One also on the coast of Waterford, about the same 

 time, but not preserved. Thompson, loc. cit. 



One picked up on the long strand of Castle Freke, 

 Co. Cork, about February 1844, "having been water-soaked 

 in a storm." Thompson, loc. cit. 



Two seen in Belfast Bay, 23rd September 1845. 

 Thompson, op. cit. ; possibly Divers (Colymbi). 



The last three records are of doubtful value. See 

 Ussher, " Birds of Ireland," p. 358, 



In addition to the instances above mentioned, 

 two others are on record, both of which are un- 

 doubtedly mistakes. Fleming ("Hist. Brit. An.," 

 p. 130) states that Bullock informed him that "a 

 Great Auk was taken in a pond of fresh water two 

 miles from the Thames, on the estate of Sir William 

 Clayton in Buckinghamshire." The Great Auk, 

 however, being incapable of flight, such an occur- 

 rence would be an impossibility, and the bird re- 

 ferred to was probably one of the Divers. Again, 

 Messrs, Sheppard and Whitear, in their " Catalogue 

 of Norfolk and Suffolk Birds" (1826),i state that 

 they were assured by Sir William Hooker that a 

 bird of this species was some years since killed 

 near Southwold, Suffolk. Sir William Hooker, 

 however, informed Professor Newton that he had 

 no recollection of having made such a statement. 



1 Trans. Lmn. Soc, vol. xv. p. Gl. 



