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OCCURRENCES OF UNCOMMON BIRDS 
IN DERBYSHIRE AND SOUTH YORKSHIRE. 
ELIJAH HOWARTH, F.R.AS., 
Curator of the Public Kauai) Weston Par aya and late President of the 
Sheffield pple sie Club. 
Lomvia troile. Common Guillemot. A specimen was captured 
alive in Sheffield on Nov. 26th, 1890, and taken to the Public 
Museum, where it lived for four days. The bird was plump 
and in good winter plumage, but had received some injury to 
its legs. It was found in the neighbourhood of the dams near 
to the Museum, but not on the water. The appearance of this 
bird so far inland at the winter season, when its usual haunts 
are far out at sea, is very remarkable, and I know of no previous 
record of its occurrence in this neighbourhood. Westerly gales 
had prevailed a few days before, and the weather was just 
changing to the severe cold which commenced here on 
Noy. 26th. 
Fulica atra. Coot. One was caught alive on the River Don at 
Sheffield, on Nov. 29th, and lived in confinement for rather 
more than a week. This is not a common bird here, and it is 
quite unusual for it to be found in the midst of the manufac- 
turing part of the town as this bird was. 
Syrnium aluco. Tawny Owl. We also have in the Museum 
a living Tawny Owl, which was caught near Grantham, Lincoln- 
shire, in April last. 
Mr. A. S. Hutchinson of Derby, the official taxidermist to this 
Museum, has sent me the following notes of rare birds and unusual 
varieties, which have been sent to him in the flesh during the latter 
part of 1890 :— 
Tringa striata. Purple Sandpiper. Adult female from 
near Derby. 
Saxicola cenanthe. Wheatear. Pale buff-coloured variety 
shot at Castle Donington, September 1890. 
Perdix cinerea. Partridge. Immature, pied and mottled with 
white all over, shot near Burton-on-Trent. (This bird is the 
property of Sir Francis Burdett of Foremak Hall, on whose 
estate it was shot.) 
Passer domesticus. Sparrow. Albino, shot at Arleyston near 
Derby, August 1890. 
Turdus merula. Blackbird. Pied variety, almost white, shot 
__at Arleyston, Noy. 1890. 
June 1891, 
