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p. 887) while Latham two years later (Ind. Orn. i. p. 418) 

 named it E. tnnstalU. This specimen being fortunately 

 well preserved, still exists, with what remains of Tunstall's 

 collection, in the Museum of Newcastle-on-Tyne, and on 

 January 15tli, 1828, was exhibited by Mr. Fox to the Lin- 

 nean Society (Trans, Linn. Soc. xvi. p. 752), when it proved 

 to be identical w^th the well-known E. hortulana of Lin- 

 naeus. In May 1822, another specimen, now also in the 

 same museum, was caught on board a collier, a few miles off 

 the Yorkshire coast, and having been obtained by Mr. Fox 

 (Synops. Newc. Mus. p. 69), formed the subject of Bewick's 

 woodcut of this species,* while, in November 1827, a fine 

 male was killed near Manchester (Zool. Journ. iii. p. 498), 

 and having passed into the possession of the Author of this 

 work was figured by Selby. In the winter of 1836-37 

 another male was netted near London, and deposited in the 

 Zoological Gardens, as recorded by Blyth (Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 N. Ser. i. p. 441). On April 29th, 1841, a fine specimen, 

 now in the possession of Mr. Borrer (Ann. Nat. Hist. vii. 

 p. 524), was shot on the viaduct of the London and Brighton 

 Railway, near the Brighton station ; and a male was shot 

 April 27th, 1852, between Lancing and Worthing (Zool. 

 p. 3476). 



The appearance in England of several other examples of 

 the Ortolan has since been recorded. One was killed in 

 Scilly early in October 1851 (Zool. p. 3277), and one is 

 said to have occurred in the Isle of Wight in 1867 (Zool. 

 s.s. p. 912). An immature male killed near Shoreham is in 

 Mr. Knox's collection; one was limed at Brighton Septem- 

 ber 30th, 1870 (Zool. s.s. p. 2383), and another is said to 

 have been taken there early in May of the following year 

 (Zool. s.s. 2682). Lord Clifton believes he saw one at 

 Cobham in Kent April 10th, 1866 (Zool. s.s. p. 270); 

 three are said by Capt. Kennedy on Mr. Sharpe's authority 

 to have been shot at Cookham, while as many are mentioned 

 by Mr. Harting as having been caught at Kilburn in Mid- 



* Bewick adds that about the same time a i^air were seen in the garden at 

 Cherryburn, on the banks of the Tyne. 



