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holes of Claughton Hall. Mr. Peter Kylands (Nattiralist, 

 1837) gives Burscougli as a locality, and the late Rev. 

 J. D. Banister (Mss.) Overton, near Lancaster, but in 

 neither case are any particulars mentioned. Mr. -J. H. 

 Swainson informs me that a specimen was shot at 

 Thornton, near Fleetwood, on the 15th of September, 

 1858. 



