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is still in possession of Mr. Newton's family, and was 

 seen by the Rev. M. A. Mathew, who informed me of 

 the fact. 



Two killed in Yorkshire : Fothergill, " Orn. Brit.," 1799, p. 3; 

 Yarroll, 184o, (rp. cit. 



One in Lincolnshire: Yarrell, op. clt. ; but not included by 

 Cordeaux in his " Birds of the Humber District." 



One shot near London about 1830: Blyth, Field Nat., 

 p. 49. 



Two reported to have been killed in a wood near Scole, 

 in Norfolk (Adam White, Trans. Linn. Soc, Nov. 

 1835), but according to the shooter the species was 

 Picus major: Stevenson, Zool., 1864, p. 9248, and 

 " Birds of Norfolk," vol. i. p. 291. 



One seen several times in the Home Park, Windsor, April 

 1844: Clark Kennedy, "Birds of Berks and Bucks," 

 p. 178, who was informed by the observer, Mr. Walter. 



One shot at Shanklin, Isle of Wight, " many years " prior 

 to 1845: Bury, Zool., 1845, p. 915; A. G. More in 

 Venable's " Guide to Isle of Wight," p. 430. 



One seen several times in Caen Wood, Hampstead, May 

 1845, by W. Spencer, whose brother Avas gamekeeper 

 to the owner of the wood, the late Lord Mansfield : 

 Harting, ZooL, 1865, p. 9731, and " Birds of Middlesex," 

 p. 112. 



Two shot near Nottingham, Macgillivray thus refers to 

 them ("Hist. Brit. Birds," vol. iii. p. 79):— "Two spe- 

 cimens in my collection, a male and female, which I 

 purchased from Dr. Madden, to whom they had been 

 sent by their owner as having been shot near Not- 

 tingham. That gentleman afterAvards obtained for me 

 a certificate of the fact by the person who had pro- 

 cured them." 



One or more, Worcestershire. " Of unfrequent occurrence," 

 Hastings, " Nat. Hist. Worcester," p. 06. 



One killed, Ripley, near Knaresborough, March 1846 : 

 Garth, ZnoL, 1846, p. 1298 ; Clarke and Roebuck, p. 37. 



