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of a Naturalist, p. 22G) an example flew into a room at Dover, 

 August 20th, 1830, and was secured ; but this statement 

 was not published till 1845. The fourth bird was shot in the 

 latter part of September, 1831, at Old Buckenham in Norfolk 

 (Mag. N. H. vi. p. 286 ; Field-Nat. i. p. 172), and was after- 

 wards presented by Mr. Fulcher, who obtained it, to the Mu- 

 seum at Norwich. A fifth, being the second Irish occurrence, 

 is said by W. Thompson (P. Z. S. 1834, p. 29*) to have been 

 killed at Rathfarnham, near Dublin, early in March 1833, 

 and to be preserved in the collection of Mr. Warren, to whom 

 it was sent while perfectly fresh. The sixth example was 

 picked up dead at Hinxton near Saffron-Walden, in July 

 1838, as communicated to the Author by Mr. Joseph Clarke. 

 On October 8th, 1841, an example, killed at Wokingham, 

 was seen by the Author before it was skinned, Mr. Gould 

 having brought it to London to preserve. It is now in Mr. 

 Bond's collection. Couch (Corn. Fauna, iii. p. 147) states 

 that in June 1842, one was taken on board a vessel about 

 forty miles west of the Land's End. Thompson says that 

 an example was shot at Doneraile in the county Cork in June 

 1844 or 1845. In October 1851, one was knocked down, 

 while sitting on a rail, at St. Leonard's, and passed into the 

 possession of Mr. Johnson of that place (Zool. p. 3300). In 

 the same year an example was exhibited to the Somer- 

 set Archaeological and Natural History Society (Nat. 1851, 

 p. 234) as having been killed in that county — near Ax- 

 bridge, as Mr. Cecil Smith, who has since seen it, be- 

 lieves. Mr. Rodd records (Zool. p. C808 and s.s. p. 2240) 

 one, now in his collection, shot at Mylor near Falmouth in 

 the summer of 1859, and also another obtained some years 

 before near the Lizard. In August 1800, a specimen, now 

 the property of Mi-. Whitaker, was shot at Finchley, as 



in June 1820." Mr. Jenyns's assertion above quoted indicates that herein was a 

 mistake, and possibly 1830 was the year in which it occurred. Mr. Gould 

 unfortunately did not give the date, and can now throw no light on the matter. 



* The first record of this is in the ' Dublin Penny Journal ' (i. p. 320) of 

 March 30th, 1S3:', where it is said (incorrectly, according to Thompson) to have 

 occurred in the preceding February. Its appearance in a northern latitude, so 

 early as March, is of itself surprising enough. 



