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ball Market on the 17th November, 1870, by Mr. Gatcombe ; 

 and the latter states that some years ago he saw an imma- 

 ture bird in Plymouth market. A record in ' The Field ' 

 of the 6th November, 1875, of a supposed female of this 

 species having recently been procured at Maiden in Essex, 

 was subsequently admitted to be a mistake ; but weeks after 

 the correction the then Editor of ' The Zoologist ' unfortu- 

 nately gave currency to the error by quoting the first state- 

 ment without its recantation (Zool. s.s. p. 4766). At 

 Bridlington, Yorkshire, one was shot early in August 1850. 

 Further north, at the Fame Islands, a male and a female 

 were observed throughout the summer of 1873 ; and on the 

 14th of the following November an adult male, presumably 

 the same, was obtained there and passed into the collection 

 of Mr. Raine of Durham. In the same locality a pair are 

 said to have been observed in May 1880 ; and Mr. H. M. 

 Wallis informs the Editor, that he had a good view of an 

 adult male oft' that group of islands at the end of May 1882. 

 In Scotland, the late Dr. Nelson told Mr. R. Gray 

 that he saw one on the coast of Haddingtonshire in the 

 winter of 1847 ; and Mr. Harvie-Brown informs the Editor 

 that he recently observed an adult male off" the Isle of May. 

 Mr. R. Walker has recorded the occurrence of a small 

 flock at the mouth of the Tay in the spring of 1872 ; an 

 adult male and three females being subsequently obtained. 

 As regards the Orkneys, Bullock's statement to Montagu, 

 that he had actually found the nest with six eggs "on a 

 rock impending the sea " at Papa Westra, must be taken 

 for what it is worth, for it has never received any subsequent 

 confirmation, although few groups of islands have been 

 more frequently explored ; but a bird mentioned by Messrs. 

 Baikie and Heddle was exhibited before the Zoological 

 Society by the late Mr. Gould in 1832 ; and Mr. E. Hargitt 

 has a female which he shot oft' Stromness on the 22nd of 

 May, 1868, as Avell as another shot there by the late J. H. 

 Dunn, on the 11th December, 1869. The late lloi)ert Dunn, 

 writing from Helister, Weesdale Yoe, Shetland (Zool. p. 

 2188), states that he shot one out of a pair at the mouth of 



