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J. H. Gurney, Esq., of Easton, in the 'Zoologist,' page 3599. 

 In the usual way it is also seen in those parts in the. 

 winter months, but old males are seldom obtained except in 

 severe seasons. Many specimens were procured along the 

 coast of Essex and the two last-named counties in the winter 

 of 1829-30. They are not uncommon near Yarmouth, and 

 generally on the Norfolk coast in severe weather, but th& 

 immature birds are much more common than the adult. 



In Yorkshire, a fine female specimen was shot near Richmond 

 on the 12th. of December, 1854; a female shot at Barnsley, 

 in January of the same year. Specimens have occurred near 

 Hebden Bridge; also near Doncaster one in 1837. Indi- 

 viduals also near York, and at Swillington, near Leeds 

 several were procured in the year 1830. In Cambridgeshire- 

 a pair were shot at Pricwillovv, in 1854. A female in 

 Burwell Fen, in summer; others have been sold in the 

 Cambridge market. In the sister county of Oxford, a fine 

 specimen of this bird was killed at Otmoor, in February, 

 1838, and in the winter of 1841, two others fell to the gun 

 near Cassington. A pair, male and female, were shot near 

 Reading, in 1785. Three were shot, adult birds, a male and 

 two females, at Terrington Marsh, Norfolk, on the 7th. of 

 December, 1849. In Essex, two on the .Thames, near 

 Barking, the beginning of January, 1850. 



In Cornwall, one was shot near Penryn Creek, Fal mouth,, 

 in December, 1846, and a second specimen in November,, 

 1847; others on the Truro river and its branches. The- 

 species has occurred also in Kent, by the Thames; in 

 Worcestershire, on the Severn, near Worcester; likewise in 

 Lancashire, Dorsetshire, and Surrey, near Chertsey, in 

 November, 1842. One was shot out of a flock of thirty-four. 



In South Wales, Mr. Dillvvyn has noticed its occurrence 

 at Swansea. It has also been met with in North Wales. 

 In Montgomeryshire three were seen at Bronafron, on the 

 River Severn, January 2nd., 1850, one of which was shot. 



They also breed in Scotland, in Sutherlandshire, on all the 

 lochs, as near Scowrie and elsewhere ;. likewise in Argyleshire, 

 on Loch Awe, where the nest was found by Sir William 

 Jardine, Bart., and Mr. P. J. Selby, in June, -1828; in 

 Ross-shire, at Loch Maree. They also remain throughout the 

 year in Orkney, Shetland, and the Hebrides, and rear their 

 young. Pennant has mentioned their breeding in the Isle 

 of Islay, and Mr. Macgillivray found the nest in Harris. 



