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Yorkshire. In Nottinghamshire two have been killed on 

 the Trent. Mr. J. Hancock states that he observed one 

 over Prestwick Car, in Northumberland, in May 1866 ; 

 and one was shot at Scremerston on the 10th June, 

 1874. Northwards the visits of this species become rarer ; 

 the records comprising one in Berwickshire in 1848 ; 

 one in Forfarshire in 1835 ; one in Aberdeenshire in the 

 winter of 1837-38 ; one on South Ronaldshay, Orkney, in 

 1840 ; and two in the Shetlands. In the south, the late 

 Dr. Moore, on the authority of Mr. Gosling, says, that 

 three birds have been obtained in Devonshire ; and Mr. 

 Rodd mentions an adult killed in May 1848, in the Land's 

 End district, in Cornwall. One was killed in Hariipshire in 

 1808 by the gamekeeper of John Guitton, Esq., of Little 

 Park, near Wickham ; and Mr. E. Hart informs the Editor 

 that he has one shot in Poole Harbour in July 1881. One 

 has been killed near Salisbury ; and one, out of a flock of 

 four, was shot in Oxfordshire ; but with regard to a bird 

 shot at the end of July 1883, in Hertfordshire, there is a 

 suspicion that it had escaped from Mr. H. D. Astley, of 

 Chequers Court, Tring ; and this observation applies, in a 

 less degree, to a young bird shot in September 1882, in 

 Kent (c/. Zool. 1884, p. 195). Several have, however, been 

 previously killed in Kent ; and one so recently as the 

 end of August 1884, at Pevensey, in Sussex. Mr. R. A. 

 Valpy, writing to ' The Field ' under date of 3rd of May, 

 1884, says, " On Wednesday evening, the 23rd ult., about 

 a quarter to seven, while standing on the new railway, about 

 three miles from the town of Newbury, we were surprised 

 to see a flock of six White Storks {Clconin alba) pass close 

 to us, flying in a north-easterly direction. When first 

 observed they were flying directly towards us, about thirty 

 yards from the ground " ; and on May 17th Mr. W. F. Hall 

 writes : " With reference to Mr. R. A. Valpy's letter on 

 this subject, I beg to state I also witnessed the flight of 

 Storks which he described from the Enborne road, some few 

 yards from the rectory. They were then going in a north- 

 easterly direction." It is possible that if merely unmolested. 



