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and Cambridgeshire. At long intervals it has occurred in 

 the Humher district and in Yorkshire (twice at Coatham, 

 near the mouth of the Tees) ; also along the Trent valley 

 and in other parts of Nottinghamshire, according to Mr. 

 Whitaker, several have been seen and three have been 

 obtained : two of them in 1877 and 1878. Mr. Hancock is 

 not aware of any occurrence in Northumberland, except the 

 one near Hexham mentioned by Selby ; and in Cumberland 

 the only instance appears to be that of a female, purchased 

 in Carlisle market about the year 1850, as the Editor is 

 informed by the Kev. H. A. Macphersou. 



Examples are not unfrequently seen in the London markets 

 — generally, according to Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., in the 

 month of November — and are said to come from the counties 

 between the Thames and the Humber ; but it is probable that 

 most of them are really brought from Holland, whence also 

 live birds are sometimes sent. Two were killed near Oxford, 

 in the winter of 1832, and another pair during the winter 

 of 1844, for a notice of which the Author was indebted to 

 Mr. W. Borrer. Mr. J. C. Mansell-Pleydell records a bird 

 of this species obtained on the Wareham river in January 

 1879, the first occurrence known to him in Dorsetshire. 

 Mr. Gatcombe is aware of but one instance of the occurrence 

 of a young bird of this species in Devonshire, and Mr. 

 Rodd does not mention it as a visitor to Cornwall. In 

 Radnorshire a remarkably tame bird was observed by Sir 

 Harford J. Jones-Brydges, frequenting a pond during the 

 winter and up to March, 1859. 



In Scotland, the late Sir William Jardine, writing in ' The 

 Naturalist's Library ' prior to 1843, says that he once found 

 a fresh bird of this species in the Edinburgh market ; and 

 an example shot near Musselburgh in 1855, was exhibited 

 at a meeting of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh 

 on the 26th December by Dr. J. A. Smith. In Ireland 

 the occurrence of this species was first recorded by Mr. H. 

 Blake-Knox, who says that he shot an adult male in March 

 1871, off the Dublin coast; and in the same month another 

 was sent to him, procured off Antrim (Zool. s.s. p. 2645). 



