160 EOTCHE. 



One of these birds was picked up in the middle of the 

 city of Durham, not far from the lliver Wear, in the garden 

 of E. Shepperdson, Esq., on the 26th. of November, 1852. 

 It had a{)parently just been seized by a cat. In the month 

 of October hundreds appeared off Hartlepool, on the Dur- 

 ham coast, and the birds were in such close flocks, that five 

 or six were killed at a shot. One was seen near Stockton- 

 on-Tees, in the county of Durham, in March, 1853, and 

 another was shot on the Eiver Wear, near Durham, the 

 beginnini:^ of December, 1846. In Sussex one was obtained 

 at Crawley the first week in November, 1850, and another 

 near Worthing, shot on the 15th. of November, 1852. In 

 Surrey it has occurred near Godalming. In Somersetshire 

 one at Weston-super-Mare in the winter of 1818-9. In 

 Cambridgeshire one was picked up alive, but in a very 

 exhausted state, at Newmarket Heath, in the month of 

 November, 1819; another between Cambridge and St. Neots, 

 November 2lst., 1851. Another was found between Baldock 

 and lloyston, in 1816. In Worcestershire one about the 

 same time near Malvern. Nine others have occurred in that 

 county. 



They have been met with along the coasts of Essex, 

 Suffolk, and Norfolk. They are extremely uncertain in their 

 appearance. Great numbe.- appeared off the shore in the 

 month of October, 1811. Three in November, 1853, off 

 Yarmouth, Lynn, and at Norwich respectively. In 1816, 

 specimens occurred at Sculthorpe, on the 3rd. of December; 

 at Norwich on the 5th.; Horsey on the 7th.; Cromer and 

 Stratton-Strawless on the 17th.; and at Salthouse and 

 Fakenham on the 18th. and 19th.; with several others. 

 Pour near Downham, near which place one was subsequently 

 obtained in the second week of July in the same year. A 

 few were on sale in the London markets. Three in Shrop- 

 shire. Others in Bristol and up the Severn. One in 

 Hertfordshire, at Wheathampstead. 



In Scotland one was procured by the Rev. Mr. Cunning- 

 ham, of Prestonpans. It had been taken in an exhausted 

 state by some fishermen; another, also, in November, 1852, 

 in the Firth off Dalmeny Park; another was shot by 

 Eobert H. Broughton, Esq. near Cramond, on the Firth of 

 Forth, on the 14th. of February, 1853. In Sutherlandshire 

 the species occurs, but not numerously, in the winter. A 

 very large flock made their appearance in Moray Firth in 



