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that ' Mr. Lambert presented to the Zoological Society a beauti- 

 fully marked adult bird, which was killed in Wiltshire in the 

 month of August, and retained at that time a great portion of 

 the true red colours of the breeding season or summer plumage/ * 

 The late Kev. G. Marsh recorded that one was brought to him 

 which was killed by some boys with a stone on Dunspool pond, 

 on the downs at Winterslow. Another was shot at Dauntsey by 

 the Kev. A. Biedermann ; and another at Kellaways Mill by the 

 Kev. K. Ashe. Lord Nelson showed me a fine specimen in his 

 possession, which was taken on the borders of the county on the 

 Hampshire side. The late Rev. John Ward announced the 

 capture of another at Great Bedwyn ; and Mr. Elgar Sloper, of 

 Devizes, speaks of several as having been killed in that neigh- 

 bourhood, one which came into his collection having been taken 

 on the banks of the Kennet and Avon Canal in November, 1840. 

 The Rev. T. A. Preston wrote me word that one had been killed 

 near Marlborough in 1869, and the Rev. G. Powell that another 

 was killed at Deverill by Mr. George in September, 1870. The 

 Kev. A. P. Morres mentions two killed at Woodlands, in the 

 parish of Mere, as well as several others, in the winter of 1870 ; 

 one at Pertwood, November 17th; and another at Codford, 

 November 19th, 1875 ; and one knocked down with his oar by 

 Mr. Edwards while rowing on the river near Salisbury in or 

 about 1875. The Kev. E. Duke possesses a specimen shot on 

 the river at Lake fifteen or twenty years ago. Mr. Kawlence has 

 one in his collection killed at Wishford. The Marlborough 

 College Natural History Reports mention one now in their museum 

 shot by Mr. Coleman at East Kennett in 1866, and two others 

 killed on the edge of a pond at Pewsey in 1876. The Rev. E. 

 Goddard saw one on the Bowood water on October 2, 1877 ; and 

 Mr. Grant's list contains twelve specimens, eleven of which were 

 taken in the month of October, and the other in November : viz., 

 one in 1869, from Wedhampton ; but in 1870 (when there seems 

 to have been an immigration of these birds to North Wilts) from 

 Upavon, Conock, Lacock, Beckhampton, Devizes, Allington, 

 ' British Birds,' vol. iii., p. 132. 



