144 BIRDS OF CHESHIRE. 
where the sandbanks and shallow waters of the estuaries 
are unsuited to the habits of the surface-swimming 
fish upon which it principally subsists. Occasionally, 
however, the bird has been observed in the estuaries 
on both sides of Wirral. Captain Congreve has an 
immature bird which was obtained at Burton in June 
1830; and Mr. Townshend Logan informed Dr. Dobie 
that he had seen two birds flying over Upton, near 
Chester, evidently passing between the Mersey and 
Dee! Brockholes had a specimen in immature plum- 
age which was killed on the Dee.” 
Storm-driven birds, always immature, have occurred 
from time to time in various inland localities. One, 
now in the Warrington Museum, was picked up alive 
at Lymm by Mr. E. Gibson on January 15th, 1865; 
and we have seen another that was found in an ex- 
hausted condition in a farmyard at Ringway in October 
1894, and died two days after its capture. In the 
autumn of the same year a dead Gannet was found by a 
grouse-driving party on the moors at the head of Little 
Crowden Brook, Longdendale. 
1 Dobie, op. cit. p. 318. 2 Brockholes, op. cit. p. 16. 
