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1815; and I am not aware that more than three or four 

 other examples of this bird have occurred since. The 

 first of these was shot on the Tamar in November, 1831, 

 and the circumstance has been recorded by Dr. E. Moore 

 in Devonshire, and by Mr. Couch in Cornwall. Dr. Moore 

 saw this bird while warm, and it is in the collection of 

 Mr. Drew. The second is recorded in the seventh volume 

 of the Magazine of Natural History, page 53 : it was shot 

 in October, 1832, in the parish of Otley, about eight miles 

 from Ipswich. The third is of still more recent date. In 

 reference to this bird, I received two communications on 

 the same day : one from the late Earl of Malmesbury, who 

 had purchased the specimen for his own collection at Heron 

 Court, near Christchurch, and to whom I have the honour 

 to acknowledge my obligations for various interesting par- 

 ticulars of British Birds ; the other from my friend, William 

 Thompson, of Lytchet, near Poole, but a short distance 

 across the water from the spot where the bird was obtained. 

 This Black Stork was shot in the Isle of Purbeck by a 

 clay-boatman in a marshy field on the banks of the Middle- 

 burg Creek, at the south side of Poole Harbour, on Friday, 

 the 22nd of November, 1839. 



A fine specimen was shot on Market Weighton Com- 

 mon, in 1852, and is now in the Museum of the Yorkshire 

 Philosophical Society. 



Colonel Montagu's bird was captured by means of a 

 slight shot wound in the wing, which did not break the 

 bone, and the bird lived in his possession more than twelve 

 months, in excellent health. It was shot in West Sedge 

 Moor, adjoining the parish of Stoke St. Gregory, Somer- 

 setshire, on the 13th of May, 1814; and, what is remark- 

 able, another very rare bird, the White Spoonbill, was 

 shot on the same moor, by the same person, in November 

 of the preceding year. 



