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the collection of Sir Joseph Radcliffe ; Gurney, Trans. 



Norf. Nat. Soc, v. p. 188. Doubtful. 

 One, Hornsea Mere, Yorkshire, winter 1821 : Strickland, 



"Report Brit. Association," 1838, p. 106; Mag. Nat 



Hist, 1839, p. 31 ; Holme, Zool, 1856, p. 5035. In 



the Strickland collection in York Museum, 

 One on the Isis, Oxfordshire, Sept. 1833: Zool., vii. p. 



2600 ; Yarrell, " Hist. Brit. Birds," 3rd ed., ii. p. 551. 



No specimen in Mr. Roundell's collection. 

 Two seen, rivers Stour and Orwell, Oct. 1834: Shepherd 

 . and Whitear, " Cat. Norfolk and Suffolk Birds," Trans. 



Linn. Soc, vol. xv. p. 40. Possibly the same bird seen 



on two different occasions. 

 Two seen, coast of Banff, about 1834: Edward, ZooL, 1860, 



p. 6847. Probably Spoonbills. 

 One near Beverley, Yorkshire, summer of 1835 : Strick- 

 land, I.e. Mr. Gurney considers this to be "well 



authenticated." 

 One near Osberton, Notts, prior to 1838 : Strickland, I.e. 



In the collection of Mr. Foljambe, of Osberton. Label 



on back of case. 

 One, Lincolnshire, prior to 1838: Yarrell, op. eit, fide 



Strickland. Doubtful. 

 One, Tyninghame, Firth of Forth, June 1840 ; The Globe, 



Sept. 7, 1840: Yarrell, op. eit; Turnbull, "Birds of 



East Lothian," p. 42. This specimen, in the collection 



of the Earl of Haddington, was examined in the flesh 



by Macgillivray, who has figured the head in his " Hist. 



Brit. Birds," vol. iv. p. 460, under the name of Egretta 



nigrirostris. 

 One seen at Port Carlisle, on the Solway, 1840 : Jardine, 



" Nat. Lib. Birds," iii. p. 135. Probably a Spoonbill. 



Zool, 1888, p. 330. 

 One seen, Romney Marsh, Kent : Pemberton Bartlett, 



Zool, 1844, p. 624, and 1849, p. 2419. 

 One, Thorney Fen, Cambridgeshire, June 1849 : Foster, 



Zool., 1849, p. 2568. In the collection of Col. Strong, 



