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the same appears to be the case in Finland; also in Holland, 
France, and Germany. It occurs likewise in America, even 
to the Polar regions, and in Asia; and rears its young 
within the Arctic circle. It is enumerated by Captain 
Sabine among the birds inhabiting Greenland and Spitzbergen. 
Sir William Jardine says that he has seen a specimen from 
New Holland that appears in every way identical. 
Dr. Fleming mentions one killed in the Isle of Sanday, 
one of the Orkneys, on the 15th. of June, 1808. Vast flocks 
arrive on our eastern shores in the autumn. In Lincolnshire 
it used to be extremely abundant. 
In Ireland it is a regular autumnal visitant; also in Scotland, 
among other places, between Aberdeen and Peterhead. 
This species generally arrives in Orkney in September. One 
was killed by Mr. Strang, August 20th., 1811; several were 
shot by the same gentleman on August 26th., 1843, September 
7th., 1837,. and in October, 1831. They often appear in 
large flocks. 
On the 4th. of February, 1851, I shot one of these birds, 
when in company with my friend the Rev. R. P. Alington, 
on the Lincolnshire side of the Humber. It was one of a 
flock, very wild, and one of the longest shots I ever made; 
neither of us will soon forget the walk we took that day. 
A specimen, of which W. Brooks Gates, Esq. has written me 
word, was shot at Pattishall, in Northamptonshire, the first 
week in February, 1855; in Surrey, one near Godalming, in 
December, 1854. In Cornwall, it is not uncommon near 
Falmouth, at Gwyilyn Vase and Swanpool. 
These birds frequent the Jow mouths of rivers, the sides of 
bays, and other fiat parts-of the coast. : 
They are of migratory habits, departing in April and May, 
to arrive again early in the autumn, in August, from the 
north. 
On their first arrival in the autumn they are extremely | 
tame, and are easily procured; afterwards, however, they 
learn to be more wary; and in the end become extremely 
wild; during high water they retire to any neighbouring dry 
land. They have been observed to swim with great ease. 
They are valued for the table, and as they occur with us in 
considerable numbers, are sold pretty extensively in the markets. 
They used to be taken, Bewick says, in nets, into which they. 
were inveigled by wooden figures of birds painted in their 
own resemblance. Pennant says that as many as fourteen 
