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except on the flats of Cardigan Bay and in Pembrokeshire, it 
is seldom recorded from the west side of Great Britain. Prof. 
Salter, in his ‘ Birds of Aberystwith,’ mentions that fourteen 
Spoonbills were seen on the river Dovey on May 16th, 
1898. In the southern counties the Spoonbill appears at 
irregular intervals. One was shot in Surrey on November 
26th, 1901 (Gordon Dalghesh, ‘ Zoologist,’ 1902), none 
having been recorded from that county since 1862 (Bucknill, 
ibid., p. 806). On September 25th, 1902, another was shot 
in Sussex (N. F. Ticehurst, ‘ Zoologist,’ 1903). 
Fie. 10.—SPOONBILL. 
Few Spoonbills wander to Scotland. Mr. Harting men- 
tions a flock of ten which visited the Bay of Kirkwall in 
the Orkneys in October, 1859; six were shot. Specimens 
have also been procured from the Shetlands and the Inner 
Hebrides (Saunders). To Ireland this species is a rare and 
uncertain visitor, appearing chiefly in autumn and winter. 
It has been recorded about thirty-three times, aud most 
often from the south. The first specimen, however, was 
taken near Belfast, about the beginning of the last century 
(Thompson). On December 16th, 1890, one was obtained 
in the co. Galway, while a specimen procured in the co. 
