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the Hon. T. L. Powys tells me. It used to be a winter 
visitor to the fens in Cambridgeshire, varying in numbers 
according to the comparative mildness or severity of the 
season. In Norfolk several occurred near Lynn, towards the 
end of January, 1852. They were unusually common there 
in the beginning of 1854, and are met with annually in 
the spring and winter. Breydon, near Yarmouth, is also a 
locality. Specimens are procured near Doncaster and Sheffield 
in severe weather, and considerable numbers occasionally about 
Sutton-on-Derwent, near York, though by no means as regular 
visitants. They are not uncommon at Walton Park, and 
one was met with near Barnsley: in hard winters some 
occur near Burlington. 
In Cornwall six were seen on Looe River, Helford, December 
19th., 1849, and two shot on the 26th. of the same month. 
In Derbyshire, individuals have occurred by the Trent, in 
hard weather. The like remark has to be made of Oxfordshire, 
where small flocks are occasionally seen, but only in the 
severest seasons. 
In Scotland it is a rare winter visitor in Sutherlandshire. 
It visits Orkney also at the same season. 
In Ireland two occurred near Waterford, in February, 1848. 
They begin to move northwards by the end of February 
or the beginning of March, few being ever seen after the 
middle of that month, and return southwards early im 
September. ' 
These birds have been kept in the gardens of the Zoologicai 
Society, and have reared their young, towards whom they 
exhibited great attachment. They -have also similarly been 
preserved elsewhere, and appear to do well. In their wild 
state they collect at times in very large flocks, and associate, 
to a certain extent, with those of other species of their family, 
though not with any great intimacy. They seem naturally 
to resort more to streams and water sides than to the open 
country, as the other kinds. They are esteemed for the table, 
and when young are easily tamed. 
They fly strong and well, and on going any distance keep 
in single line; they walk about, too, in a rather graceful 
manner with quickness and ease. 
They feed on clover, turnip leaves, and those of other 
vegetables, both marine and inland, and corn; beetles and their 
larvee, and other insects, with which they also swallow some 
gravel in aid of digestion. 
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