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Sussex, and Shropshire, &c. ; but it appears to have been more common on the east coast than 

 elsewhere. 



According to Mr. Lubbock the Glossy Ibis was often enough seen in Norfolk in the latter 

 years of the seventeenth century, and was well known under the name of Black Curlew, but 

 since about the year 1800 it is only known as a rare and uncertain straggler. Mr. Stevenson 

 (B. of Norf. ii. p. 191) cites the following instances of its occurrence there, viz.: — One shot in 

 the winter of 1818 near Lynn, and two killed at Hockwold fen (Shepjpard and Whitear); two 

 shot and four more seen at the mouth of the Norwich river in September 1824 [Paget); two 

 killed near Yarmouth in January 1825 (Lombe) ; one near Cromer 1829 (Hunt) ; one near Norwich 

 in October 1833 (Lombe), one shot on Blundeston Marsh, near Lowestoft, on the 27th May 

 1850 (J. H. Gurney); one seen near Yarmouth in January, and one shot at Stalham on the 

 13th September 1868. Mr. Cordeaux (B. of Humb. Distr. p. 107) says that one was shot in the 

 autumn of 1869 near the mouth of the Trent, and one at Filey in 1863 ; and Selby refers to one, 

 in his possession, as having been killed on the banks of the Coquet. 



In Scotland it is rarer than in England; but it has been met with as far north as Shetland. 

 Mr. Robert Gray writes (B. of W. of Scotl. p. 286) as follows : — -" This straggler has never, to 

 my knowledge, been met with in the west of Scotland, except in a single instance mentioned by 

 Macgillivray — a specimen having, according to that writer, who saw it, been shot in Ayrshire. 

 No date is given. 



" On the east coast one of these birds was shot in September 1842, in Fifeshire, by 

 Mr. Hepburn, who communicated the circumstance to Mr. Yarrell. A third specimen appears 

 to have been obtained near Banchory, in Kincardineshire, on the property of Sir James Burnett, 

 Bart., about the year 1844. This bird, as I have been informed by Mr. Angus, was presented 

 to the late Professor Macgillivray, in whose work, however, no particulars are given, although 

 the simple circumstance is noticed." According to Dr. Saxby one was shot at Stove, in Unst, 

 in October 1862 ; and Mr. Dunn informed Mr. R. Gray that one was shot near Kirkwall in 

 October 1857. 



In Ireland, according to Thompson, it appears as a rare straggler late in the autumn or early 

 in the winter. 



It has not been met with in Greenland ; but, curiously enough, five are said to have been 

 obtained in Iceland, one of which, Mr. J. Collin says, is now in the Copenhagen Museum. 

 Mr. H. C. Miiller states that it has once occurred in the Fseroes; and my friend Mr. Collett 

 says that it has on several occasions been met with in Norway. One was shot near Bodo in 

 67° N. lat. in 1835; and subsequently one was obtained at Imsjo, in Ringebo; one was seen by 

 Collett himself at Drammen in July 1862 ; two were shot in 1848 at Bergen, and one near 

 Christiania in the autumn of 1839. One was seen by Baron E. Wedel-Jarlsberg near Fornebo. 

 Nilsson says that it occurs as a straggler in Southern and Central Sweden, in Skaue, on Gottland, 

 and in Sbdermanland. It has once occurred in Finland, a single specimen having been obtained 



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onKuusto, near Abo, in the summer a year or two prior to 1830. ■ It is not included by Sabanaeff 

 as occurring in Central Russia ; but Artzibascheff says that is very common near Astrachan and 

 on the lakes south of the Sarpa. It is of accidental occurrence in Poland ; and Borggreve says 

 that it is a rare straggler to North Germany. Boeck records it once from Prussia, Schafer from 



