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Carlisle, in Cumberland; only one having been met with 

 there in the preceding ten or twelve years. In Somerset- 

 shire, in the same year, the winter of 1830-31. In Hamp- 

 shire, in Denny Bog, in the New Forest. 



The Rev. Leonard Jenyns, in his 'Observations on the 

 Ornithology of Cambridgeshire,' published in 1826, says that 

 Bitterns were then met with in Burwell Fen, and occasionally 

 on the moors near Cambridge, but appeared to be getting 

 more scarce every year. Formerly they were plentiful. 



They have also not unfrequently been met with along the 

 low flat shores of Kent and Essex, in the reed beds and 

 marshy grounds along the banks of the Thames. One at 

 Walthamstow, in the latter county, in the month of January, 

 1850. It was common formerly, says the Rev. R. P. 

 Alington, speaking of Lincolnshire, but this doubtless implies 

 that it is not so now: Man ton Common, and Twigmoor, 

 near Brigg, in the same county, are mentioned by Sir 

 Charles Anderson, Bart., as having formerly been favourite 

 localities. In Lancashire, a male bird was shot at Thelwall, 

 near Warrington, on the banks of the Mersey, on the 12th. 

 of January, 1854. In Cornwall, specimens have occurred at 

 Penryn Creek, Swanpool, Pennance, and other places near 

 Falmouth. One, a female, was shot at Swanscombe, near 

 Gravesend, Kent, Mr. W. C. Cooke informs me, and also 

 one at Horning, Norfolk, December 30th., 1853. 



In Derbyshire, one, in 1837, frequented the margin of the 

 Trent below Swarkeston Bridge; one was shot formerly on the 

 same river; and J. J. Briggs, Esq. saw one also at the cliff, 

 near Weston, in September, 1838. In Norfolk they have been 

 not unfrequent, and must formerly have been plentiful; their 

 numbers appear to have been added to in the winter months 

 by occasional migratory arrivals. In Surrey, it has occurred 

 near Grodalming, and at Kew Bridge, in January, 1854. One 

 also at Jessop's Eyot, near Chiswick, Middlesex, on the 7th. 

 of the same month. 



In Scotland, some have been obtained, especially in the 

 southern part, in the winter of 1830-31, when -several were 

 brought to Sir William Jardine, in Dumfriesshire. In Suther- 

 landshire they are rare; Charles St. John, Esq. has heard it 

 at Shinness, near Loch Shin. 



"Wallace, in his 'Account of Orkney,' states that the 'Bit- 

 tern hath been seen in this country;' but Dr. W. B. Baikie 

 and Mr. Robert Heddle, in their very complete 'Historia 



