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One captured on a vessel off Montrose, Dec. 1867 : Harvie- 



Brown, Zool, 1868, p. 1058. Weight, 4^ lbs. 

 One, Lochness, Inverness-shire, Oct. 1868 : Gray, op. cit. 

 One, Beauly, Inverness-shire, Aug. 21, 1869 : Von Hiigel, 



Zool, 1869, p. 1863. 

 One, Dovein, co. Mayo, March 18, 1871: Ashby, Field, 



April 8, 1871. 

 One, Southrepps, Norfolk, Dec. 4, 1871 : J. H. Gurney, jun., 



Zool, 1872, p. 2912. 

 One, Freswick, Caithness, 1876: Harvie-Brown, "Fauna of 



Caithness," p. 162. 

 One near Lack, co. Fermanagh, Feb. 1876 : Murray, Field, 



March 4, 1876. 

 One shot at Ditsworthy Warren, near Barnstaple, Devon, 



March 1876 : Rowe, Field, April 1, 1876. And another 



trapped ten days later on Exmoor: D'Urban and 



Mathew, " Birds of Devon," p. 135. In the collection 



of Sir Frederick Knight. 

 One, Burnham Overy Marshes, Norfolk, Nov. 2, 1876: 



Gould, Field, Nov. 18, 1876; Stevenson, Zool, 1877, 



p. 98. 

 One, in Lewis, Hebrides, Nov. 1876: Rocke, Zool, 1877, 



p. 177. 

 One, Shurrery, Caithness, April 4, 1881. In the collection 



of Mr. J. G. Millais. 

 One, Inishtrahall Island, co. Donegal, Nov. 19, 1882 : 



A. G. More, Zool., 1883, p. 80. 

 One, in Lewis, Aug. 25, 1890 : Walters, Zool, 1896, p. 140. 

 One, Easington, Yorkshire coast, Sept. 27, 1891 ; Cordeaux, 



Nat, 1891, p. 359, Zool, 1893, p. 59. 



Ohs. Usually met with in autumn and winter, 

 and so frequently as almost to deserve recognition 

 in the first part of this Handbook. R. Gray 

 considers ("Birds of West of Scotland," p. 62), 

 that it "may almost be regarded as a regular 

 spring visitant to the Outer Hebrides ; " and ac- 



