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this immediate locality, but also from further north on the 

 coast into Durham and Xorthumberland, and south to Whitby 

 and Scarborough, every day furnishes additional proof of 

 the phenomenal nature of this invasion of the little northern 

 sea-fowl, for a precedent for which we must look back to the 

 year 1895." 



Mr. Bentley Bsetham reports one from the river Greta, far 

 inland near Barnard Castle, and Mr. M. Winzar Compton 

 tells me of two picked up alive at Keyingham, eight miles 

 from the coast, on January 18th and February 2nd. 



From the Spurn district of Holderness, Mr. G. E. Clubley 

 writes that he had seen twenty- six dead, sixteen of which 

 were in one small pond near the sea, while he believes that 

 numbers more were washed up on the beach. A specimen 

 sent to me on February 4th by Mr. Clubley was not par- 

 ticularly thin, but the gizzard was empty. 



Lancashire. — Mr. T. A. Coward informs me that Mr. F. 

 Williamson reports [Lanes. Nat., 1912, p. 385) one found 

 alive at Rochdale on February 1st, and another at Smallbridge, 

 Rochdale, on February 5th. 



Lincolnshire. — The Rev. F. L. Blathwayt writes : " The 

 immigration of Little Auks has extended far inland in the 

 county. A Lincoln bird-stuffer received more than twelve, 

 mostly from around the city, between the dates January 24th 

 and February 12th, and many more have been picked up. 

 Mr. Kew, a Louth bird-stuffer, had twenty-two up to February 

 14th from different parts of the ' Marsh ' district near Louth. 

 The first reached him on November 23rd, 1911." 



XoTTiNGHAMSHTRE. — "One was sent by Mr. Hamilton from 

 near Newark to Mr. A. F. Adsetts on February 8th." " (F.C.R. 

 Jourdain). 



Derbyshire — " The first of which I have a definite record 

 was caught alive at Ripley by Mr. Marshall and sent by him 

 to Mr. A. F. Adsetts on February 1st. On February 3rd 

 another was sent from Shardlow to Messrs. Hutchinson. A 

 third was found alive, during a snowstorm, in the locomotive 

 sheds at Derby station, and was brought to Mr. Adsetts on 

 the 8th, while a fourth was sent to Messrs. Hutchinson from 

 Draycott on the 9th. A fifth was obtained in the Matlock 

 district in Februar}^, but I have not yet been able to ascertain 

 any further particulars." (F. C. R. Jourdain). 



Cheshire. — Mr. A. Newstead writes : "On February 3rd, 

 whilst looking for stray birds, I was surprised to fix my glasses 

 on to a specimen of the Little Auk swimming rather rapidly 

 in the middle of Dee, practically^ only a stone's-throw from 



