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One seen several times in the Home Park, Windsor, April 

 1844 : Clark Kennedy, Birds of Berks and Bucks, p. 178. 



One shot at Shanklin, Isle of Wight, " many years " prior 

 to 1845 : Bury, Zoologist, 1845, p. 915 ; A. G. More in 

 VenaWs Guide to Isle of Wight, p. 430. 



One seen several times in Caen Wood, Hampstead, May 1845 : 

 Harting, Birds of Middlesex, p. 112. 



Two shot near Nottingham. Macgillivray thus refers to 

 them : " Two specimens in my collection, a male and 

 female, which I purchased from Dr. Madden, to whom they 

 had been sent by their owner as having been shot near 

 Nottingham. That gentleman afterwards obtained for me 

 a certificate of the fact by the person who had procured 

 them" (Hist. Brit. Birds, vol. iii. p. 79). 



One or more, Worcestershire. " Of unfrequent occurrence," 

 Hastings, Nat. Hist. Worcester, p. 66. 



One killed, Ripley, near Knaresborough, March 1846 : Garth, 

 Zoologist, 1846, p. 1298. 



One, Audley End, near Saffron Walden, 5th June, 1847: 

 Newton, Zoologist, 1851, p. 3278. 



One, Claremont, Surrey, prior to 1850 : M'Intosh, Naturalist, 

 1851, p. 20. Evidently a mistake. 



Two seen at Yarm, Yorkshire : Hogg, Cat. Birds S.E. Dur- 

 ham, p. 16 ; Hewitson, Eggs of British Birds, p. 193. 



One, Somersetshire : Somerset Archseol. Proc. p. 144. 



One,Belmont,Unst, Shetland : Crotch, Zoologist, 1861, p. 7341 . 



One seen in Pignel Wood, near Brockenhurst, New Forest, 

 and eggs taken 9th June, 1862 : Farren, Zoologist, 1862, 

 p. 8091 ; and Wise, New Forest, p. 272. 



Two ' ' frequently seen near Christchurch, Hants : " Yarrell, 

 /. c., and Wise, /. c. 



One seen in Ditton Park, March 1867: Clark Kennedy, /. c. 



One purchased in the flesh in Leadenhall Market, 6th Nov. 

 1868, but supposed to have been sent from Sweden with 

 Capercaillie : Gurney, Zoologist, 1869, p. 1515. 



