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at Lound, near Lowestoft, in June, 1851, and another on 

 the 7th. of September, 1850; one in August, 1815, one by 

 Captain Manby, near the Hospital, in April, 1820, and one 

 in April, 1833. In Norfolk, one at Brooke Hall, and one 

 at Thetford, in September, 1843, and some others. In 

 Northumberland, a small flock was seen near Bamborough 

 Castle, in July, 1818, in company with Starlings; one about 

 the same time near Newcastle; and two others were shot 

 near Alnwick. In Lincolnshire also, and in Durham. In 

 Glamorganshire, one in a garden near Swansea, in 1836. In 

 Lancashire, two in the neighbourhood of Ormskirk. In 

 Anglesea, one at Holyhead. In Hampshire, a pair were seen 

 near Christchurch, and the male was procured. In Derbyshire, 

 one about the year 1809, near Weston, and another was 

 observed near Melbourne, in October, 1842, in company with 

 Starlings, but, being close to some sheep, it could not be 

 fired at. In Sussex this bird has also been procured. 



One was shot near Lostwithiel, in Cornwall, by Philip 

 Pomeroy, Esq., about the year 1822, and another by Boughton 

 Kingdon, Esq., my informan^, about the year 1835, in the 

 autumn: it was in an elder tree, and was attacked by Swallows 

 and other small birds. Also one at Helston; and one in the 

 Scilly Islands; and another was shot at St. Budeaux, in the 

 neighbourhood of Plymouth, on the 17th. of June, 1851. 

 For a beautifully-executed drawing of this specimen, as of 

 several other rare species, I am exceedingly indebted to a 

 very obliging correspondent, John Gatcombe, Esq., of Wynd- 

 ham Place, Plymouth. An adult male was shot at Eastwood, 

 near Nottingham, in October, 1851, as William Felkin, Esq., 

 Jun., of Carrington, near that place, has written me word; 

 and one at Topsham, in Devonshire, of which N. Eowe, Esq., 

 of Worcester College, Oxford, has informed me. One at 

 Chudleigh, on the 18th. of June, 1851; one at Berry Head, 

 on the 12th. of the same month; and one about the same 

 time of the year in 1845. One was shot in Oxfordshire, 

 another near Oxford, in the spring of 1837, and another in 

 February, 1838. 



In Scotland, one at Dunkeld, and another shot in a garden 

 in Forfarshire, on the 29th. of September, 1831. 



In Ireland several have been taken. 



In the Orkney Islands one was procured, of which my 

 friend Hugh Edwin Strickland, Esq. has informed me; and 

 another, a female was taken at Hoy; one also in the garden 



