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on the shore near Tor Abbey, in December, 1849; one near 
Plymouth, in December, 1856, of which John G-atcombe, Esq., 
of Wyndham Place, has written me word; on January 4th., 
1850, one was taken alive, but in an exhausted state, on the 
highroad between Edgware and Stanmore. One of these birds 
was found on one of the high downs near Seaford, Sussex, 
of which R. V. Dennis, Esq. has informed me, and of four 
others about the same time near Brighton; another picked up 
dead on or about the 6th. of November, 1850; one at Rotting- 
dean, taken alive, December 14th., 1848. In Oxfordshire, one 
was found dead in the winter of 1850-51, at Blenheim Park, 
near Woodstock, the seat of His Grace the Duke of Marl¬ 
borough; another in the parish of Weston-on-the-Green, in 
February, 1838, others also; one shot near Henley, in the year 
1847; one also at Chipping Norton. In Durham, one, obtained 
by the Rev. A. Shafto. One in the county of Hereford. In 
the county of Cumberland, one was taken in a net in the 
Solway Firth, in November, 1841; also in Derbyshire; and 
in Cambridgeshire one at Bassingbourne. 
In Hampshire, one was found dead in the year 1850, at 
Luccombe Chine, in the Isle of Wight. Several near London; 
Mr. Yarrell bought one in the Leaclenhall Market, alive at the 
time. In Shropshire one, recorded by T. C. Eyton, Esq., of 
Eyton, near Shrewsbury. In Cornwall, one was obtained near 
Penzance, in November, 1852; others at Falmouth, Gwvllyn 
Vase, Carrack Road, and Swanpool, but rarely. One was 
picked up on Hindhood, near Liphook, Surrey; one in the 
neighbourhood of Haslemere, in the same county, 21st. of 
November, 1840; several near Dunswold, February 2nd., 1841. 
Another in Gloucestershire; and four or five near Bristol, 
Somersetshire. In Yorkshire, an individual was found at 
Kirkhammerton; another in one of the streets of Halifax, 
December 16th., 1831; another on Sutton Common, near 
Doncaster; three or four near York; one shot near Sprotborough, 
on the River Don, in 1837; a few near Leeds. 
In Scotland the first British specimen was obtained near 
St. Kilda, one of the Hebrides, in the summer of 1818. Since 
then one was obtained in Dumfriesshire, in the lower part of 
Annandale, by Sir Patrick Maxwell, Bart.; it was found dead. 
Another bv John Jardine, Esq.; and a fourth on St. Boswell’s 
Green, in Roxburghshire. 
It has occurred in Ireland, but only occasionally. 
These birds appear to be more shy than the other kinds, 
