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seen by the following list of specimens, has occurred in many instances in this county ; but, 

 although appearing with a strange regularity between 1853 and 1856, I know of no examples, 

 either seen or procured during the last nine years. It is noticeable, also, from the subjoined 

 records, that these birds usually visit us in autumn, appearing singly and in various stages of 

 plumage ; but occasionally a straggler is met with during the summer months, at which time 

 they are more frequently observed in the southern counties. 



" 1853, August 23. A nearly adult male, near Wymondham, now in the collection of 

 Mr. Newcome, of Feltwell. This is no doubt the same bird recorded by Mr. Gurney in the 

 'Zoologist' (p. 4053) as killed 'near Norwich' about the same date. 



" 1855, August 14. An adult male was killed at Hevingham, and came into the possession 

 of Mr. Alfred Master, of Norwich, whose brother, Mr. George Master, of Duke Street, Grosvenor 

 Square, London, has another Norfolk specimen, which, strangely enough, some three or four 

 years before, was shot in the same locality, and, I believe, from the same tree, during the cherry- 

 season, the man who killed it being engaged on his cherry-tree at the time. On the 23rd of the 

 same month, a male was killed at Sherringham, which is, I believe, in Mr. Upcher's possession. 



"1856, September. A female, near Yarmouth; and on October 7th, an adult male at 

 Hunstanton." 



Mr. Cordeaux records the occurrence of one on the 26th of August, 1866, on Cottingham 

 Common, near Beverley, and of another near Scarborough in July 1863. Mr. Robert Gray 

 writes that it " has occurred in almost every county of Scotland, from Berwickshire to the Orkneys 

 on the east, and from Wigtown to Sutherland on the west ; but I have hot heard of its occurrence 

 in any of the outer islands. In 1853 a pair (male and female), which I examined, were shot 

 in the outskirts of Glasgow, and were presented to the Andersonian Museum by Dr. Hugh 

 Colquhoun ; and on the 7th of August, 1868, I had an opportunity of seeing a male specimen 

 which had been shot on the previous day by one of Mr. Harvey's servants at Hundred-acre farm, 

 within two miles of the city. It was seen flying about with a flock of common Starlings. A 

 specimen in my own collection was obtained near Cupar, in Fifeshire, in the autumn of 1863. 

 Specimens have also been obtained in Perthshire, Boss-shire (near Dingwall in several instances), 

 Sutherlandshire, and Caithness-shire. In Aberdeenshire it has occurred frequently. Mr. Angus 

 sent me the stomach of one crammed with beetles, which was shot near Aberdeen in June 1867 ; 

 and Professor Dickie has obligingly sent me word of another killed about the same time within a 

 few miles of that city. 



"Mr. John Wilson has informed me, through Mr. Angus, that in the summer of 1840 the 

 nest of this species was obtained in a burrow in a sandbank near Methlick, in Aberdeenshire. 

 On the nest being destroyed by some boys, the birds removed to another sandhole about a mile 

 distant ; but Mr. Wilson does not think they succeeded in rearing a brood. 



" In the Orkneys it has occurred several times ; and Dr. Saxby states that he shot two 

 specimens at Balta Sound, in Shetland — one on 10th of August, 1860, the other in September 

 1863. Both were males." Thompson writes that it " has at uncertain invervals, during summer 

 and autumn, visited all quarters of Ireland, including the range of the most western counties." 

 It does not appear to have been observed in Iceland ; but, according to Mr. H. C. Muller, it has 

 been twice killed on the Fseroes — in October 1853 on the Kollefjord, and in September 1855 at 



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