158 RARE VISITANTS. 
One, south of England: Selby, Ill. Brit. Orn. vol. 11. p. 294. 
In the collection of the late Mr. Selby. 
One, Sanday, Orkney, October 1831: Baikie and Heddle, 
Hist. Nat. Orcadensis, p. 74; Macgillivray, Hist. Brit. 
Birds, vol. v. p. 21. 
One, Caithness: Wilson’s ‘ Voyage round Scotland,’ vol. ii. 
p. 180; Shearer and Osborne, Birds of Caithness, in Proc. 
Roy. Soc. Edinb. vol. ii. p. 340; Gray, Birds of West of 
Scotland, p. 362. In the collection of Mr. Sinclair, of 
Wick. 
One, Iken, near Orford, Suffolk, Jan. 1834: Mag. Nat. Hist. 
1834, vol. vii. p. 151; Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, vol. in. 
p. 236. In the possession of Mr. Manning, of Wood- 
bridge. 
One on the Murrough of Wicklow, 7th July, 1847: Thomp- 
son, Ann. Nat. Hist. vol. xx. p. 171; Nat. Hist. Ireland 
(Birds), vol. i. p. 65. In the collection of Mr. Warren. 
One seen near Blackstakes, Suffolk, 1864, in company with 
Common Sheldrakes: Hele, Notes about Aldeburgh, 
p. 150. 
One said to have been taken in a decoy on the Trent, near 
Epworth: Hudson, Zoologist, 1864, pp. 9046, 9290. But 
shown to have been a mistake: Newton, tom. cit. p. 9363. 
One near Tralee, co. Kerry, 17th Aug. 1869: Blake Knox, 
Zoologist, 1870, p. 2105. 
Obs. Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., informs me that this 
species has twice been killed in Norfolk, but that on 
each occasion the bird was found to have escaped 
from semi-domestication. It is highly probable that 
this has been the case with other specimens, which, on 
being found at large, were supposed, in consequence, 
to have been truly wild. 
