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known is said by Pennant (Br. Zool. Ed. 1, p. 78 note, and 

 Ed. 2, ii. p. 488) to have been shot at Mostyn, in Flintshire, 

 October 5th, 1753. Latham, in 1781 (Synops. i. p. 401), 

 added a second instance, having seen the mutilated skin of 

 one obtained in Kent. In 1813*, Montagu mentioned one 

 in the collection of Mr. Comyns, which had been shot in 

 North .Devon in August 1808. Another was recorded by Moore 

 (Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, i^ p. 179) as shot near Washford 

 Pyne Moor, in the same county, in 1829, by Mr. W. Tucker. 

 On September 26th, 1844, one, now in Mr. Borrer's collec- 

 tion, was killed at Littlington in Sussex (Zool. p. 868), and 

 on October 30th of the same year, another, which passed 

 into Mr. Gurney's possession, was shot at EoUesby, near 

 Yarmouth {op. cit. pp. 824, 1020, 1873). About 1847 one 

 is said (op. cit. p. 2914) to have been killed on Clandon 

 Common in Surrey, and early in October, 1853, one was 

 obtained near Yarmouth (op. cit. pp. 4096, 4124). Mr. 

 Foster recorded (op. cit. p. 6809) one killed at Wisbech, 

 October 8th, 1859, and on the same day of 1864, one was 

 obtained at Gorleston in Suffolk (op. cit. p. 9405). In the 

 autumn of 1865, according to Mr. Harting, one was killed 

 near Wakefield, and on November 6th, 1868, one near 

 Christchurch (Zool. s. s. pp. 1481, 1511). f 



* In the same year (1813) Graves figured (Br. Orn. ii.) a specimen from 

 Bullock's Museum, said to have been shot in Devon and given to the proprietor 

 by a Mr. Harrison. No notice of it, however, is taken in the ' Guide ' to that 

 collection nor in the catalogue of its contents when sold a few years later. ■ The 

 anonymous compiler (believed by Mr. Harting to have been Mr. James of 

 Manaccan) of a list of the birds of Cornwall and Devon (Monthly Mag. xxvi. 

 pt. ii. p. 434, for Dec. 1808) mentions one seen by him in autumn in one of those 

 counties. Whether it was the specimen recorded by Montagu is uncertain. 



t In 1846, Messrs. Gurney and Fisher mentioned (Zool. p. 1315) an example 

 "taken some years since at South wold, in Suffolk," but the Editor, without 

 expressing any doubt as to the statement, is compelled to remark that he has 

 failed in obtaining any confirmation of it. He is however informed by Sir E. 

 Kerrison that he has had a specimen in his possession for about forty years, 

 which he believes to have been killed at Oakley Park in the same county. An 

 example is said (Zool. p. 4168) to have occurred near Whitehaven in Cumberland, 

 but the list which includes it contains so many extraordinary assertions that 

 belief in this particular statement may await the adducement of further 

 evidence, the more so since it is not declared whether the example was procured 



