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that this specimen from Shetland produced 81. Ss. , and was 

 transferred to the British Museum. 



Mr. Joseph Clarke, of Saffron Walden, sent me word 

 that a pair of Pratincoles was shot on the Breydon-wall 

 near Yarmouth, in May, 1827, by John Bessy, a fisherman, 

 and sold -to Isaac Harvey, a bird-preserver, who re-sold 

 them for 7/. The occurrence and capture of this pair of 

 Pratincoles is mentioned in Paget's Sketch of the Natural 

 History of Yarmouth and its Neighbourhood (page 10). 



From Mr. F. Holme I learned, that a Pratincole was 

 shot by Frederick Oats, Esq., of Branston Hall, near 

 Lincoln, on the 15th of August, 1827, while flying about 

 much like a Swallow, and near the ground. 



The Rev. Leonard Jenyns sent me notice of a Pratincole 

 shot in Wilbraham Fen, Cambridgeshire, in May, 1835; 

 and this specimen is now in the collection of J. T. Martin, 

 Esq., of Quy Hall, in that county. In May, 1840, a 

 Pratincole was shot upon the shore of the harbour of 

 Blakeney, in Norfolk, by Henry Overton, a fowler, and 

 passed into the possession of Mr. John Sparham, by whom 

 it was presented to Henry Rogers, Esq., solicitor, at Thet- 

 ford. 



In November, 1842, a specimen of this rare bird was 

 shot by Mr. Hussey, at Tilshead, in the middle of Salis- 

 bury Plain. This specimen is now in the collection of the 

 Rev. A. C. Smith, at Yatesbury Rectory, Calne, Wilts. 



In May, 1844, one was shot on Staxten Wold, near 

 Scarborough, in company with a flight or trip of Dotterel, 

 as recorded by Sir William Milner, Bart. 



In February, 1850, one was shot at Bedlington, in North- 

 umberland, 



In the autumn of the same year, a pair was observed on 

 a sand-bank at the mouth of the river Exe. Their move- 

 ments on the sand very much resembled those of the 



