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to his knowledge about four years ago at Holyhead ; and it 

 has also been killed twice in Lancashire. Mr. Thompson 

 sends me word that it has, in a few instances, occurred in 

 summer, in various parts of Ireland. North of London, a 

 specimen was shot on the 15th August 1830, at Haydon 

 House, a few miles from Royston. Mr. Hoy has recorded 

 a notice of one at Woodbridge in July 1832. On the 10th 

 of July 1838, a fine specimen was shot by one of the 

 gamekeepers of the Rev. J. Holmes, of Brooke Hall, 

 Norwich. This gentleman very obligingly sent the bird to 

 London, for my use in this work, and the figure at the 

 head of this subject was drawn from that specimen. The 

 Rose Pastor has also been obtained in the same county 

 more than once besides, as recorded by Messrs. Paget, and 

 Mr. J. D. Salmon. This species has been obtained in 

 Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, Durham, and Northumberland. 

 The museum at Newcastle contains one British-killed 

 specimen, if not more. Mr. Selby mentions that a small 

 flock were seen in company with Starlings, near Barn- 

 borough Castle, in July 1818; and two other birds have 

 been killed within a comparatively short period, and both 

 near Alnwick ; one of which is now in the collection of the 

 Rev. Oswald Head, of Howick Rectory, the other belongs 

 to Mr. Moifatt, one of the gamekeepers of Earl Grey, at 

 Howick, as communicated to me by Mr. Hutchinson, of 

 Durham. Dr. Fleming has noticed one that was killed at 

 Dunkeld. Thomas Macpherson Grant, Esq., of Edinburgh, 

 has in his collection one shot in a garden in Forfarshire, on 

 the 29th of September, 1831 ; and Mr. Bullock had a 

 female that was taken at Hoy in Orkney. 



Since the publication of the previous account, Mr. Hey- 

 sham has sent me notice of one killed near Carlisle, and 

 another has been killed in Kent. 



