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there has seldom been a second record, except in the case 
of the Flamingo. 
So it was with the Agyptian Vulture, seen in 
company with the bird shot in Somersetshire, in 1825 ; 
unless it were one of the two seen at Bridgewater, in 1826, 
it is not known that the bird was ever again seen. 
So it was with the Demoiselle Crane, (seen with its 
mate); which was shot, in Orkney, 1863; and there are 
many like instances; the second bird was never, so far as 
is known, seen again. 
Nor is it possible to compute, if twelve birds like the 
Red-winged Starling are captured, and recorded, how 
many more may be abroad that are captured, but mot 
recorded ; and how very many more may be abroad 
neither captured, nor recorded: it were an interesting 
problem to solve, if on twelve occasions, ranging over so 
many years, Agelzeus Phceniceus is carelessly lost from 
confinement, and observed, how many more times must 
bird-fanciers have lost Red-winged Starlings, which have 
roamed the country where no Naturalist has been by to 
take note, or taking note, taken trouble to record. 
Sometimes occurrences have been set down to the 
score of ‘escaped, on the plea that such a species was not 
a wanderer ; as the Purple Gallinule, but, per contra, it 
is recorded that our Corn Crake has occurred casually on 
the East coast of North America, including Greenland 
(Bulletin, U.S. National Museum, 1881). 
There have been 14 occurrences of the American 
Bittern. 
Sometimes occurrences are rejected from unlikelihood 
through other causes: thus the Swallow-tailed Kite is 
not included in his fine work on the birds of Europe, by Mr. 
H. E. Dresser: and I believe it is partly on the plea, that 
being an insectivorous bird mainly, it would not probably 
