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informed me by letter in 1886 that a PufRn was 

 picked up alive between Stibbington and Wansford 

 on November 24, 1877. My next record in point of 

 date is that of a stuffed Puffin sent to me for identifi- 

 cation by the Rev. G. Nicholson, who informed me 

 that the bird was brought to him alive and very 

 lively on the morning of December 17, 188B, by 

 Mr. Bazeley, of Sheep Street, Northampton, who 

 told him that it came about 9 P.M. on the night of 

 the 12th December, tapping and scratching at the 

 door of a Mr. Facer, near Naseby Reservoir, and was 

 easily taken with the hand. Mr. Frank B. Simson 

 subsequently added to the above details by informing 

 me that this bird, (which both he and Mr. Nichol- 

 son considered to be a Little Auk), was taken 

 alive at Thornby. A fourth Puffin was picked up 

 about November 22, 1884, in a farmyard at Yoke 

 Hill, near Benefield, and sent alive to Lilford by my 

 brother-in-law, Mr. Thos. H. Burroughes, on the 

 27th, but died on the following day. Another was 

 sent alive to Lilford by the Rev. Sir F. Robinson on 

 March 16, 1887, with the information that it had 

 been found near Cranford a day or two before its 

 despatch to us ; this bird fed freely upon small fishes 

 for awhile, but died on April 2. Another, found 

 early in April 1888, near Pipewell Hall, Kettering, 

 and reported to me as a Little Auk, was sent for my 

 inspection to Lilford in October of the same year, 

 and proved to be an immature Puffin. The last 

 occurrence of this bird in our neighbourhood that 

 has come to my knowledge is that of a specimen 

 sent from Cottingham early in November 1892 to 

 Mr. J. G. Field, of Kettering, for preservation. 

 Mr. Field reported this bird to me as a Little Auk, 



