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nent. The most eastern, and also the most northern 

 locality of which there is any record, as regards this 

 migration, is Archangel ; a specimen in the Museum of 

 that town being recorded by Messrs. Alston and Harvie- 

 Brown,* another being in a private collection there ; 

 and a specimen was also obtained at Moscow, f The 

 earliest date that can be given with precision is the 6th 

 of May, at Skolonitz, in Moravia. By the 21st of May 

 Heligoland was reached, and the same day the first British 

 examples of that year, two males and one female, were shot 

 out of a flock of fourteen, at Thropton, in Northumberland. 

 The next day birds had reached Eccleshall, in Stafi"ordshire, 

 where two were shot out of a flock of about twenty ; and 

 from that date onwards the records become numerous. It is 

 unnecessary to recapitulate the exact localities and details of 

 each capture, so carefully worked out by Professor Newton 

 and Mr. Stevenson ; and it will be sufficient to say that in 

 Norfolk and Suffolk seventy-five birds were obtained, a 

 number far exceeding that obtained in any equal area. The 

 most interesting of these instances was that of a slightly 

 wounded bird which was taken alive near Elveden, and sent 

 by Professor Newton to the London Zoological Gardens, 

 where it lived for some time. In Lincolnshire several 

 were obtained in May ; and early in December about 

 twenty were shot out of a flock numbering between forty 

 and fifty ; many more, however, are believed to have been 

 eaten or destroyed in ignorance of their rarity.! In 

 Yorkshire about twenty-four examples were killed ; and in 

 Durham and Northumberland about twenty-six. On the 

 eastern side of Scotland birds were obtained : in Hadding- 

 tonshire, where, besides the slain, one was kept alive by 

 Lord Haddington ; in Forfarshire, seven or eight examples ; 

 in Perthshire, Kincardine, Aberdeen, Elgin, Caithness, and 

 Sutherland ; even on Unst, the northernmost of the Shet- 

 lands, an example was obtained on 4th November, out of 

 a small flock ; and one also on Benbecula, in the Outer 



• Ibis, 1873, p. C6. f Dresser, Birds of Europe, vii. p. 77. 



i Cordeaux, Birds of the Huiiiber District, p. 80. 



