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J. Lister, postmaster of Barnsley, informs me; one on the 

 beach at Redcar, November 13th., 1851; another near Knares- 

 borough, the latter end of October, 1846; one at Halifax, 

 picked up in Broad Street in that town at about the same 

 date; one was found dead in a field near Eipon, and sent 

 to Bewick, by Lieutenant-Colonel Dalton, of Sleningford, of 

 the 4th. Dragoons; one was observed swimming in the river 

 in the town of Sheffield; it flew up and settled on a house, 

 and was then shot; some few individuals have occurred near 

 Leeds; others near Huddersfield and Hebden Bridge; one at 

 Keighley. In Norfolk, some of these birds are generally killed 

 every winter; in the month of November, 1824, between two 

 and three hundred were shot after severe gales; considerable 

 flights have occasionally been seen on the coast; one bird 

 flying over the River Ouse, near Lynn, on the 6th. of October, 

 1852. In Cambridgeshire, a specimen was found at Whittles- 

 ford, November 15th., 1852; one at Bottisham, October 6th., 

 1855; another near Newmarket, October 17th., 1855. In 

 Surrey, several specimens have been obtained near G-odalming; 

 one on the banks of the Thames, near Richmond, about the 

 end of January, 1835. In Sussex, one was blown against the 

 spire of the parish church of Hailsham, on the 26th. of 

 February, 1848, and was picked up in the churchyard; one shot 

 near Seaford, in October, 1856. One was found dead near 

 Buckingham, as James Dalton, Esq., of Worcester College, 

 Oxford, has informed me. One also in Northamptonshire, near 

 Barton Segrave. In Derbyshire, it has occurred near Melbourne; 

 and Bewick mentions that the late Marmaduke Tunstall, Esq., 

 of Wyclifie, had one sent to him which was shot near Bake- 

 well. In Oxfordshire, one near Oxford; another killed by a 

 boy near Chipping Norton, in November, 1846; other two 

 occurred there in the winter of 1846-7; two shot out of a 

 flock of five, near Ensham, in December, 1837. In Cornwall, 

 one was captured on the night of the 1st. of October, 1856, 

 at the house of Mr. Hamilton, Wood Lawn, Falmouth; others 

 near there, and at Carrick Road, and about Marazion and 

 Penzance, but rarely; many occurred near Looe in the autumn 

 of 1852. In Somersetshire, one near Bath. Several were met 

 with on the Hampshire coast during severe weather in Jan- 

 uary, 1857. In March, 1825, one was shot from a barge in 

 the River Thames, in the very centre of London, between 

 Blackfriars' Bridge and Westminster Bridge. In Warwickshire, 

 three or four are noticed as having been caught in the streets 



