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on the Hampshire coast in the winter months not very rarely. 
One was seen close to Haslar in March, 1853; and another, 
as I am informed by the Rev. J. Pemberton Bartlett, was 
found in the New Forest, near Fordingbridge, Hampshire, in 
January, 1851. It attacked the man who found it in a 
fierce manner. 
One, in immature plumage, in the possession of Mr. Chaffey, 
of Dodington, Kent, was killed near Sheerness about the 
year 1842. Others near Maidenhead and Pangbourne, Berk- 
shire, in 1794, and near Newbury in 1810. One, a young 
bird, of which Horace Waddington, Esq., of University 
College, Oxford, has written me word, on the Isis, between 
Godstowe and that city. Another was found in a garden at 
Headington Hill, near Oxford, one morning, after a remarkably 
stormy night, in October, 1824. 
In the county of Nottingham specimens occasionally occur 
on the Trent. In Buckinghamshire a young specimen was 
found alive in a deep ditch at Risborough, on the 9th. of 
May, 1850. It was kept for some time at Chequer’s Court, 
the seat of Lady Frankland Russell, and was then removed 
to the gardens of the Zoological Society. Several were driven 
on the Devonshire coast, five of which were procured—one of 
them a male in full plumage; one at Torbay, in December, 
1850. They are not very unusual in winter along that shore,’ 
as also all the way from Kent to Northumberland, by Essex, 
Suffolk, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, and Durham. In the county 
of Cumberland, Mr. Heysham says that immature birds occur 
at the like season on the rivers near the Solway; and in the 
month of January, 1835, one was killed at Talkin Tarn, near 
Brampton. In Sussex one was picked up on the 20th. of 
the same month on the top of a high ridge of the Chalk 
Downs, in the parish of Beddingham. In 1821, one was seen 
on a pool in Westwood Park, near Droitwich, Worcestershire, 
the seat of Sir John Pakington, Bart. A fine specimen was 
met with in Bedfordshire, on the River Ouse, the 4th. of 
February, 1830. In Surrey three specimens have occurred 
near Godalming, two on Frensham Pond, and one on Old 
Pond. Specimens are occasionally shot on Breydon Broad, 
near Yarmouth, Norfolk; the young birds are the more common. 
The winter is the most productive season; in the summer 
they are very rarely seen. One at Thornham about the 4th. 
of December, 1851. 
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