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Several in Derbyshire: Briggs, ZooL, 1849, p. 2477. 



One near Aberdeen, Feb. 1866 : Gray, " Birds of West of 



Scotland," p. 55. 

 One, Balta Sound, Shetland, March 1871 : Saxby, " Birds 



of Shetland," p. 35. 

 One seen, North Sunderland, Oct. 1872: Hancock, "Birds 



of Northumberland and Durham," p. 22. 

 One, Hermitage Farm, Bridgenorth, autumn 1873 : Cooke, 



Zool, 1874, p. 3997. 

 One on the banks of the Tummel, near Pitlochry, 



Perthshire, Feb. 1873 : Received for preservation by 



M'Leay, Land and Water, Feb. 1873. 

 One, Rombald's Moor, near Ilkley, Yorks, July 1876 : 



Butterfield, Zool, 1877, p. 177. 

 One seen, Scarborough, Oct. 30, 1879: Clarke, Zool., 



1880, p. 358 ; Clarke and Roebuck, p. 43. 



Ohs. In Low's "Fauna Orcadensis," 1813, p. 41, 

 this bird is said "still to be found," as if it were 

 at that date a resident in Orkney ; and in a more 

 recent " Fauna Orcadensis," by Messrs. Baikie and 

 Heddle (1848), the authors remark (p. 30) that it 

 is " believed still to breed in the Hammers of 

 Birsay, Orkney." It is seen occasionally in Shet- 

 land (Crotch, Zool., 1861, p. 7339, and Saxby, 

 Zool., 1864, p. 9240). But in regard to both Orkney 

 and Shetland, the more recent volumes issued by 

 Mr. Harvie- Brown on the fauna of those islands 

 should be consulted. In Ireland it is said to have 

 been only once observed (Thomson, " Nat. Hist, of 

 Irel. (Birds)," p. 85), and it has not been included 

 by Mr. Ussher in his lately published volume on the 

 birds of that country. 



The late Mr. Edward Fountaine, of Easton, 



