50 oceanitidj:. 



Rev. G. S. Marsh states (Zool. p. 6492) that one was picked 

 up dead at Sutton Benger, near Chippenham, in Wiltshire, 

 by a hibourer who, being persuaded by his wife that it was 

 merely a Swift, threw it down again, when another labourer, 

 arguing that a Swift had not webbed feet, secured it, 

 and brought it to the vicarage. Mr. C. Delme Radcliffe, 

 who was familiar with the species from having taken 

 examples off the coast of South America, states that he 

 picked up one in November, 1863, on the shore at Fresh- 

 water, in the Isle of Wight. Mr. N. F. Hele writes in his 

 ' Notes about Aldeburgh ' (p. 176), that " a single individual 

 was obtained some years since in this neighbourhood, and 

 is in the possession of Col. Thellusson." Mr. W. E. Clarke 

 mentions (Hbk. Yorks. Yertebs. p. 85) that one shot near 

 Halifax late in November, 1874, is in the collection of Mr. 

 Christopher Ward, to whom it was brought in the flesh. 

 Other examples have probably occurred, but have not, per- 

 haps, been distinguished by those into whose hands thej' 

 may have fallen. As yet there is no record of this species 

 in Scotland ; and as regards Ireland, all that can be said is, 

 that a specimen was presented to Thompson in August, 

 1840, by Glennon of Dublin, w^ho believed it to have been 

 obtained in that country. 



In France, according to Degland and Gerbe, M. Hardy 

 received in the flesh, in December, 1854, two examples 

 taken in the Gulf of Gascony ; and one obtained at Guetary, 

 near Biarritz, on the 3rd of December, 1872, is in the 

 collection of Dr. Marmottan, at Paris. Stragglers are said 

 to have been taken on the coast of Provence, and it certainly 

 enters the Mediterranean, for the Editor possesses a female 

 captured off Malaga on the 7th of August, 1873 (Bull. 

 Soc. Zool. Fr. 1877, p. 205) ; and Dr. Salvadori has re- 

 corded an example in the University Museum of Cagliari, 

 said to have been obtained off Sardinia. Mr. Godman found 

 this species common in summer about the Azores, and it 

 has been taken in many localities on the west coast of 

 Africa down to the Cape of Good Hope. Four examples 

 were obtained on the ' Challenger ' expedition, off the Ant- 



