396 HANDBOOK OF BRITISH BIRDS 



One, Aiidley End, near Saffron Walden, June 5, 1847 : 

 Newton, Zool., 1851, p. 3278. 



One, Claremont, Surrey, prior to 1850: M'Intosh, Nat., 

 1851, p. 20. Asserted by Henry Doubled ay to be a 

 mistake {Gardener ^ Chronicle, 1851), but insisted upon 

 by M'Intosh (torn, cit, p. 91), who refers to a specimen 

 preserved at an inn at Esher. 



Two seen at Yarm, Yorkshire: Hogg, Zool., 1845, p. 1107, 

 "Catalogue of Birds S.E. Durham," p. 16; Hewitson, 

 " Eggs of British Birds," p. 193. 



One, Somersetshire: Somei'sct ArcJuvol. Proc., p. 114. 



One, Belmont, Unst, Shetland : Crotch, Zool., 1861, p. 7341. 

 This was probably Dendrocopus major. 



One seen in Pignel Wood, near Brockenhurst, New Forest, 

 and eggs taken June 9, 1862: Farren, Zool, 1862, 

 p. 8091; and Wise, "New Forest," p. 272. A very 

 circumstantial but incredible account. 



Two " frequently seen near Christchurch, Hants : " Yarrell, 

 op. cit., and Wise, I.e. One shot, and in the collection 

 of Lord Malmesbury at Heron Court. 



One seen in Ditton Park, March 1867 : Clark Kennedy, I.e. 



One reported to have been shot at Binstead, Hants, Nov. 

 18G8, Gould, Zool., 1869, p. 1516, but subsequently ad- 

 mitted to have been purchased in Leadenhall Market, 

 and to have come from Sweden with Capercaillie : 

 Gurney, Zool, 1869, p. 1515; Rodd, Zool, 1869, p. 1562. 



One, Otley, Yorkshire, Sept. 8, 1897. This bird was shot 

 in the presence of Col. W. C. Dawson, of Weston Hall, 

 Otley, who obligingly forwarded it for my inspection, 

 and I exhibited it at a meeting of the Linnoan Society 

 on the 18th November following. A bird of this 

 species had been lost from the Regent's Park Zoolo- 

 gical Gardens, but on inquiry it was found that it did 

 not escape until Oct. 9, a month after Col. Dawson's 

 bird had been shot. See Proc. Linn. Sac, 1897-98, p. 2. 



Ohs. See Mr. J. H. Gurney's criticism on the 

 reported occurrences of this bird in Sharpe and 



