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(Zool. p. 4478). Two examples according to Sheppard aud 

 Whitear were obtained in Suffolk — one at Beccles in the 

 spring of 1825, and the other at Blyhurgh in the month of 

 May ; while one is supposed to have been seen at Glemham 

 in June 1868 (Zool. p. 1696). In Norfolk, besides the 

 flight in the last century already noticed, Sheppard and 

 Whitear mention one obtained near Yarmouth ; Lubbock, 

 in 1845, recorded one from the same neighbourhood more 

 lately ; and Mr. Stevenson, in 1866, one killed at Gisleham 

 many years before, in addition to a pair (which there is 

 some reason to suppose had a nest) shot on the river between 

 Norwich and Yarmouth June 3d, 1854 (Zool. p. 4367). 

 In Lincolnshire Mr. Cordeaux notices a specimen without 

 locality or date some years before 1872 ; and (Zool. 1880, 

 p. 511) a second, shot at Tetney Haven, August 16th, 1880. 

 Further northwards in England there is no satisfactory 

 evidence of this bird's appearance ; * but Mr. R. Gray says he 

 has seen an example obtained in Forfarshire ; and one killed, 

 in June 1852, at Kinmundy, near Peterhead, is recorded 

 (Nat. 1852, p. 204) ; while Mr. Edward mentions (Zool. 

 p. 6672) a supposed specimen killed about the same time 

 between Huntley and Dufftow^n. Mr. R. Gray also states 

 (B. W. Scotl. p. 518) that a bird believed to be of this 

 species was seen at the close of August 1869 on the river 

 Black Cart in Renfrewshire, and Thompson recorded (Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. ser. 2, ii. p. 18) an example, killed October 6th, 

 1832, near the Mull of Galloway. Mr. Dix, in 1869, men- 

 tioned (Zool. s.s. p. 1675) one obtained in Pembrokeshire. 

 Four are said (Zool. s.s. pp. 271 and 561) to have appeared 

 at Stapleton, near Bristol, in April or May 1866, on the 1st 

 or 2d of which latter month three of them were shot ; and, 

 forming part, probably, of the same visitation, was a male 

 killed, at Bishopstowe in Wilts, May 4th, 1866; as also, 

 according to Mr. Sharpe's information to Capt. Kennedy (B. 

 Berks. &c. pp. 180, 181), one seen for some days in the 



* Mr. Morris records a reputed Yorkshire example from a newspaper-para- 

 graph, in which it was called a "beef -eater" and said to have been killed 

 near Sheffield. 



