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on the Hampshire coast in the winter mouths not very rarely. 

 One was seen close to Haslar in March, 1853; and another, 

 as I am informed by the Rev. J. Pemberton Bartlett, was 

 found in the New Forest, near Fordingbridge, Hampshire, in 

 January, 1851. It attacked the man who found it in a 

 fierce manner. 



One, in immature plumage, in the possession of Mr. Chaff ley, 

 of Dodington, Kent, was killed near Sheerness about the 

 year 1842. Others near Maidenhead and Pangbourne, Berk- 

 shire, in 1794, and near Newbury in 1810. One, a young 

 bird, of which Horace Waddington, Esq., of University 

 College, Oxford, has written me word, on the Isis, between 

 Godstowe and that city. Another was found in a garden at 

 Headington Hill, near Oxford, one morning, after a remarkably 

 stormy night, in October, 1824. 



In the county of Nottingham specimens occasionally occur 

 on the Trent. In Buckinghamshire a young specimen was 

 found alive in a deep ditch at Eisborough, on the 9th. of 

 May, 1850. It was kept for some time at Chequer's Court, 

 the seat of Lady Frankland Russell, and was then removed 

 to the gardens of the Zoological Society. Several were driven 

 on the Devonshire coast, five of which were procured one of 

 them a male in full plumage; one at Torbay, in December, 

 1850. They are not very unusual in winter along that shore, 

 as also all the way from Kent to Northumberland, by Essex, 

 Suffolk, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, and Durham. In the county 

 of Cumberland, Mr. Heysham says that immature birds occur 

 at the like season on the rivers near the Sol way; and in the 

 month of January, 1835, one was killed at Talkin Tarn, near 

 Brampton. In Sussex one was picked up on the 20th. of 

 the same month on the top of a high ridge of the Chalk 

 Downs, in the parish of Beddingham. In 1821, one was seen 

 on a pool in Westwood Park, near Droitwich, Worcestershire, 

 the seat of Sir John Pakington, Bart. A fine specimen was 

 met with in ' Bedfordshire, on the River Ouse, the 4th. of 

 February, 1830. In Surrey three specimens have occurred 

 near Godalming, two on Frensbam Pond, and one on Old 

 Pond. Specimens are occasionally shot on Breydon Broad, 

 near Yarmouth, Norfolk; the young birds are the more common. 

 The winter is the most productive season; in the summer 

 they are very rarely seen. One at Thornham about .the 4th. 

 of December, 1851. 



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