92 BIRDS OF CHESHIRE. 
at Leasowe in December 1866,! and Dr. Dobie that 
another was taken on the sandhills at New Brighton.” 
Probably it is not an infrequent visitor to the Cheshire 
shore in hard weather, for it has often been noticed on 
the Welsh coast between Bagillt and the Great Orme,’ 
and on the Lancashire seaboard between Formby and 
Liverpool. In exceptionally severe weather during the 
winter of 1893-94, when the beach was covered with 
drift ice, Coward saw a flock of eight or ten birds feeding 
along high-water mark at Blundell Sands on the Lanca- 
shire side of the Mersey Estuary; and in January 1896 
Mr. R. H. R. Brocklebank shot one on Burton Marsh. 
The Snow Bunting has seldom been observed upon 
the Cheshire Plain. We have seen one that was shot 
when feeding with Corn Buntings at High Legh in the 
winter of 1892-98, and there is an example from Antro- 
bus in the Warrington Museum. Mr. H. H. Corbett 
saw, in a bird-stuffer’s shop at Cheadle Hulme, several 
Snow Buntings which had been shot in that district. 
In the cold winter of 1880-81, the late J. F. Robinson 
had a small flock under observation for two or three 
days in the neighbourhood of Frodsham, out of which 
he snared two birds with horsehair nooses. The Snow 
Buntings were feeding in company with Chaffinches, 
Bramblings, and Yellow Ammers; and Robinson noticed 
that when disturbed, unlike their companions, they 
never perched on a tree or bush, but alighted again on 
the ground after a short flight. The captured birds were 
recognised as Snow Buntings by an old ditcher, from 
which Robinson inferred that the species had occurred 
more frequently in that district than he had supposed? 
Occasionally the Snow Bunting occurs in some 
! Journal of the Liverpool Naturalists’ Field Club, 1867, p. 104. 
2 Dobie, op. cit. p. 302. ° Manchester City News, August 19, 1882. 
