84 BIRDS OF LANCASHIRE. 



particulars of two specimens which were in the Man- 

 chester Museum : one {Mag. Nat. Hist., 1829) shot 

 many years before in Salford, and another {id. oj)., 1831) 

 killed near Eccles on August 19th, 1830. This last was 

 a male, and the contents of its gizzard were found to 

 consist principally of the larvae of insects, the in- 

 digestible parts of beetles, and a few seeds of vegetables. 

 Byerley records an instance of one being killed near 

 Liverpool about the year 1840, and Mr. Anthony Mason, 

 of Grange, informs me one was shot at Cartmel whilst 

 feeding with Starlings in the autumn of 1854. A 

 specimen was taken near Oldham in 1860, and Mr. 

 David Mitchell of Lowerhouse had one which was killed 

 near Lancaster, where, he said, examples had occurred in 

 four successive years. Mr. John Hardy has known of 

 three instances of its occurrence during the last thirty- 

 three years : one in Prestwich Clough, now in the 

 museum of Owens College ; another, a young bird, shot 

 in or near Heaton Park ; and the third killed near 

 Barlow Wood, on the south of Manchester. 



[" One was shot near the windmill, Ainsdale, and 

 purchased from Mr. Pdddioughby the late T. Eccleston, 

 Esq., Scarisbrick." (Glazebrook's " Guide to South- 

 port," p. 150.)— Ed.l 



FAMILY COKVID.E.— GENUS PYRKHOCORAX. 



CHOUGH. 



Pyrrhocorax graculus (Linnaeus). 



Occasionally, but very rarely, seen on the coast ; 

 generally after heavy weather, and probably storm- 

 driven from the Isle of Man or North Wales. 



