Dalgleish on North American Biirls in E%Lro2')c. 211 



6. One, Anglesea. Gurney, Zobl., 1866, p. 145. Dec, 1851. 



7. One, Links of Balgownie, Bridge of Don, Aberdeenshire. Gray, B. 

 of W. of Scot., p. 280. (Harting, 1. c.) In Mus. Aberdeen Univei-sity. 

 Nov., 1854. 



8. One, Latheron-wheel, Caithness. Gray, op. cit. (Harting, 1. c.) 

 Autumn, 1862. 



9. One, Pentland Hills, Midlothian. Field Newspaper, 4 March, 1871. 

 (Harting, 1. c.) In coll. of C. Cowan of Logan House. About 1861. 



10. One, near Canterbury. Gurney, Zool., 1866, p. 145. ? 



11. One, Pevensey Marshes, Sussex. Button, Zool., 1868, p. 1098. In 

 coll. of Sir John Crewe. 26 Nov., 1877. 



12. One, near Dundalk, County Louth. Lord Clermont, Zobl., 1869, 

 p. 1517. In Belfast Museum. 18 Nov., 1868. 



13. One, Guernsey. Smith, Zobl., 1871, p. 2642. In coll. of Cecil 

 Smith. 27 Oct., 1870. 



14. One, Cahir, County Galway. Blake Knox, Zobl., 1870, p. 2408. 

 In coll. of Fennell of Garyroan. 31 Oct., 1870. 



15. One, Slingsby, near Malton, Yorkshire. Harting, Hand-book Br. 

 B., Introduc. p. xi. In coll. of Sir John Crewe. 4 Dec, 1871. 



16. One, Islay Island, Argyllshire. Lumsden, Field Newspaper, Jan, 

 22, 1876 ; Zobl., 1876, p. 4801. Oct., 1875. 



17. One, on an inland loch, Dumfriesshire. Proc. R. Phys. Soc Edin., 

 1874. Gurney, Zobl., 1876, p. 4929. In coll. of J. H. Gurney. 25 Mar., 

 1873. 



Obs. — Besides the above, two other occurrences in Great Britain are 

 recorded by Harting, 1. c, as doubtful ; viz. one in the Isle of Man, 

 Yarrell, Br. B., II, p. 578, obtained in 1836, and one near Yarmouth, 

 Gurney and Fisher, Zobl., 1848, p. 1965, date not mentioned. Two 

 others are also mentioned by him as having been recorded in error ; viz. 

 one at Christchurch, Hants, in 1836, mentioned in Thompson's Nat. Hist. 

 Ire., Birds, II, p. 172, which proved to be Nijcticorax griseux, young; and 

 the other in Cornwall, 4 Dec, 1870, recorded in the Field Newspaper, 14 

 Jan., 1871, which proved to be B. steUaris. 



Germany. 1. One, near Leipzig. Degland and Gerbe, Orn. Eur., II, 

 309. (This occurrence is considered very doubtful by Dresser, in B. of 

 E., pt. 71, 72.) ? 



XLVII. Forzana Carolina, Vieill. Carolina Rail. 



Great Britain. 1. One, on the Kennet, near Newbury, Berks. New- 

 ton, P. Z. S., 1865, p. 196. Oct., 1864. 



Obs. — It may be here mentioned, fide Harting, in Hand-book Br. B., 

 p. 152, that one of this species flew on board the steamship "Nova Scotia," 

 in October, 1865, in lat. 26° 28 'N., long. 23' 24' W., more than 500 miles 

 from the coast of Ireland. 



