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Chester. For some time it made no attempt to come nearer 

 to the edge of the river ; however, eventually it flew a few 

 yards, and dropped again, apparently exhausted. A little 

 later on in the afternoon of the same day it had made its way 

 nearer to the old Dee bridge, and was killed by some boys^ 

 from whom it was purchased and presented to the Chester 

 Museum by Professor R. Newstead, together with a second 

 specimen picked up at the river's edge — dead — on February 

 4th. The stomach of one specimen contained only the roots 

 of plants, the other was quite empty." 



Mr. T. A. Coward reports one taken alive at Mere near 

 Knutsford, on February 2nd, and another at Cuddington, 

 near Northwich, about February 6th. 



Norfolk. — Mr. J. H. Gurney writes : " They were first 

 heard of at Cley on January 20th. Mr. Gunn, of Norwich, 

 had one from Wells on the 23rd, one was found in a field at 

 Northrepps on the 24th, three at Overstrand on the 26th, 

 while from Cley, Mr. Pashley wrote to me that hundreds 

 were supj^osed to have passed Blakeney ; more than forty 

 were counted from the beach in an hour or two on the 

 26th, several being picked up exhausted, and others seen to 

 fly inland. Three were reported by Sir Digby Pigott from 

 Sheringham onFebruary 2nd; Mr. Gunn, of Norwich, had had 

 thirteen by the 8th, and Mr. Saunders, of Yarmouth, sixteen 

 by the 9th, Mr. Roberts six." Specimens kindly sent to me 

 by Mr. Gurney (Northrepps, February 3rd, Ruston, February 

 7th, Yarmouth, February 8th) were all very thin and had no 

 food in their gizzards. 



Suffolk. — Dr. C. B. Ticehurst writes from Lowestoft that 

 numbers were picked up. Mr. Bunn, of Lowestoft, had seven 

 brought in to him {Angler's News, 10.11.1912, p. 201). Mr. 

 Gurney tells me of six from Aldeburgh. 



Northamptonshire. — " One found near Kettering on Feb- 

 ruary 3rd and another at Kettering ' last week.' " (C. E. 

 Wright, Zool, 1912, p. 74 ) 



Leicestershire. — "One was sent to Messrs. Hutchinson 

 for preservation from Ashby-de-la-Zouch and arrived on 

 February 9th, having probably been found on the previous 

 day." (F. C R. Jourdain.) 



Warwickshire. — Mr. Leigh writes that one was found alive 

 at Small Heath, Birmingham, on February 3rd, and that 

 another was reported at Coventry on February 2nd. 



Worcestershire. — Mr. Leigh also tells me of specimens 

 being reported from Evesham and Harvington. 



