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time, one on the 4th. of December, 1804, another on the 

 25th. of November, 1805, and the third on the 17th. of 

 January, 1806. Two have been met with in Falmouth 

 harbour. 



One was shot near Dover, in the year 1840, which Mr. 

 Chaffey, of Dodington, has written me word < '; and one at 

 Killingholme, Lincolnshire, in 1846, of which Mr. George 

 Johnson is my informant. One was obtained in the vicinity 

 of Ingham, in Norfolk, and one in the same county* shot 

 near Yarmouth, the 24th. of November, 1853, of which Mr. 

 James Hunt wrote to me; one also near Hunstanton, in 

 severe weather in the winter of 1852, of which the Rev. 

 W. C. Fearon, Vicar of that parish, has written me word. 

 One near Cambridge; one, in the severe storm of January, 

 1854, was found dead upon the ice, in the Lordship of 

 Great Houghton, near Northampton; of this Mr. William 

 Brookes Gates has informed me. Another was caught alive 

 at Wildon, in the same county. 



A large flock of these birds visited the Dunbar shore 

 during a severe storm, in November and December, 1846, 

 and one of them is now in my collection, obligingly for- 

 warded to me by II. Gray, Esq., Southcroft, Govan, Glasgow, 

 who procured twenty or 'thirty specimens. He wrote to me 

 of these, 'Many of them were in a disabled state, arid were 

 found in fields and gardens in the neighbourhood. Some 

 were found dead in these situations, small flocks were 

 observed along the shore, and sometimes met with in the 

 harbour, and other smooth water to which they could get 

 access. I had at one time eight or nine individuals in 

 custody. Two of them were very fine specimens. Those in 

 my possession were very pugnacious; between the two I have 

 just mentioned, a sharp fight happened, which was likely to 

 end in the death of the weaker combatant, had they not 

 been separated. The Little Auk is found at the Bass Rock. 

 I saw a specimen there in July, 1851. It is also said to 

 breed at St. Abb's Head.' After the same storm alluded to 

 above, Mr. Edward, of Banff, counted, between the burn of 

 the Boyne and Greenside of Gamrie, a distance of about 

 nine miles, between fifty and sixty of them, which had been 

 cast ashore dead. Another, also recorded in the 'Banffshire 

 Journal' by Mr. Edward, was found alive on a pool of 

 water, in the hollow of a hill, on the west side of the 

 Gallowhill, near Banff, on the 10th. of February, 1852. 



