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Author that a pair of Pratincoles was shot on the Breydon- 

 wall, near Yarmouth, in May, 1827, by John Bessey, a fisher- 

 man, and sold to Isaac Harvey, a bird-preserver, who re-sold 

 them for £7. The occurrence and capture of this pair of 

 Pratincoles is mentioned in the Messrs. Pagets' ' Sketch of 

 the Natural History of Yarmouth and its Neighbourhood' 

 (p. 10). In May, 1840, another was shot upon the shore 

 of the harbour of Blakeney, in Norfolk, by Henry Overton, a 

 fowler, and passed into the possession of Mr. John Sparham, 

 by whom it was presented to Mr. Henry Kogers, solicitor, at 

 Thetford, and afterwards became the property of Mr. New- 

 come, of Feltwell Hall, who subsequently obtained another 

 shot in his neighbourhood during the first week of June, 

 1868 (Zool. s.s. p. 1492). 



From Mr. F. Holme, the Author learned that a Pratin- 

 cole was shot by Mr. Frederick Oats, of Branston Hall, 

 near Lincoln, on the 15th of August, 1827. 



The Rev. Leonard Jenyns sent notice of a Pratincole shot 

 in Wilbraham Fen, Cambridgeshire, on 21st June, 1835, 

 which passed into the collection of Mr. J. T. Martin, of Quy 

 Hall, in that county. 



In the middle of November, 1842, a specimen of this rare 

 bird was shot by Mr. Hussey, at Tilshead, in the bleakest 

 part of Salisbury Plain, and is now in the collection of the 

 Rev. A. C. Smith, at Yatesbury Rectory, Calne, Wilts. 



In May, 1844, one was shot on Staxton Wold, near 

 Scarborough, in company with a flight or ' trip ' of Dotterel, 

 as recorded by the late Sir William Milner, Bart. (Zool. 

 p. 2023) ; one now in the collection of Mr. J. H. Gurney, 

 Junr., was said to have been shot at Bridlington, in the 

 same county, in February, 1850;* and a third, obtained 

 near Whitby, in October, 1871, is in the Museum of that 

 town. 



On the 7th September, 1851, a pair was observed on a 

 sand-bank at the mouth of the river Exe, where their move- 



* This example was originally assigned to Bedlington, in Northumberland, 

 but this is admitted to be an error : cf. Hancock, N. H. Trans. Northumb. and 

 Durham, vi. p. 96, note. 



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