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previously observed in England, though the fact was not 

 recorded until April, 1832 (Mag. Nat. Hist. v. p. 288), for, 

 so long ago as August, 1817, as Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., 

 informed the Editor, an example, still in the possession of 

 Mr. Pamplin, was shot by him in the garden of Forest 

 House, near Walthamstow in Essex. About March, 1824, 

 Mr. Richard Lubbock attentively observed a third at Oulton, 

 near Lowestoft in Suffolk, as he mentions in his ' Fauna of 

 Norfolk.' I am indebted to the late Dean Goodenough for 

 the knowledge of the occurrence of another example, which 

 was shot in his garden at Wells, in Somersetshire, in 1833. 

 On January 9th, 1844, a bird was shot by Mr. Jordan, on 

 the rocks near Teignmouth, which, though originally taken 

 for a Richard's Pipit, is stated by Mr. W. S. Hore (Zool. 

 p. 5G6) to have been an Alpine Accentor, and the same 

 gentleman subsequently recorded (Zool. p. 879) a specimen 

 obtained soon after near Torbay, which the Editor believes 

 to have been killed at Berry Head, and shewn to him by its 

 owner, Mr. F. M. Lyte, in December, 1850. Mr. Porter states 

 (Zool. p. 5958) that on December 26th, 1857, two were shot 

 on the Downs near Lewes, and on January 10th, 1859, Mr. 

 Gatcombe obtained a pair of this species, which he had seen 

 about three weeks before, on the rocks of Plymouth citadel. 

 In addition to the record he made at the time (Zool. p. 6377) 

 he has been so good as to inform the Editor that their 

 "actions, when hopping about on the cliffs, resembled those 

 of the Hedge- Sparrow, and the reddish mark on their sides 

 appeared nearly as conspicuous as that of the Redwing. They 

 were very tame, but when frightened took refuge in a sort 

 of cave, uttering notes which resembled the words tree, tree, 

 tree, — similar to those made by many small birds when fight- 

 ing." Another specimen was, according to Colonel Newman, 

 writing in February, 1860 (Zool. p. 6889), shot some time 

 previously near Cheltenham ; and Mr. W. W. Boulton men- 

 tions (Zool. p. 8766) his having seen one, in 1863, which had 

 been shot near Scarborough ; while the Editor has been in- 

 formed by Mr. Howard Saunders (who is perfectly well ac- 

 quainted with the Alpine Accentor) that on August 20th, 1870, 



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