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One seen several times in the Home Park, Windsor, April 

 1844 : Clark Kennedy, Birds of Berks and Bucks, p. 178. 



One shot at Shanklin, Isle of Wight, " many years " prior 

 to 1845 : Bury, Zoologist, 1845, p. 915 ; A. G. More in 

 Venable's Guide to Isle of Wight, p. 430. 



One seen several times in Caen Wood, Hampstead, May 1845 : 

 Harting, Birds of Middlesex, p. 112. 



Two shot near Nottingham. Macgillivray thus refers to 

 them : — " Two specimens in my collection, a male and 

 female, which I purchased from Dr. Madden, to whom they 

 had been sent by their owner as having been shot near 

 Nottingham. That gentleman afterwards obtained for me 

 a certificate of the fact by the person who had procured 

 them" (Hist. Brit. Birds, vol. iii. p. 79). 



One or more, Worcestershire. "Of iinfrequent occurrence," 

 Hastings, Nat. Hist. Worcester, p. 66. 



One killed, Ripley, near Knaresborough, March 1846 : Garth, 

 Zoologist, 1846, p. 1398. 



One, Audley End, near Saffron Walden, 5th June, 1847 : 

 Newton, Zoologist, 1851, p. 3378. 



One, Claremont, Surrey, prior to 1850 : M'Intosh, Naturalist, 

 1851, p. 20. Evidently a mistake. 



Two seen at Yarm, Yorkshire : Hogg, Cat. Birds S.E. Dur- 

 ham, p. 16 ; Hewitson, Eggs of British Birds, p. 193. 



One, Somersetshire : Somerset Archseol. Proc. p. 144. 



One, Belmont,Unst, Shetland : Crotch, Zoologist, 1861, p. 7341 . 



One seen in Pignel Wood, near Brockenhurst, New Forest, 

 and eggs taken 9th June, 1863 : Farren, Zoologist, 1862, 

 p. 8091 ; and Wise, New Forest, p. 272. 



Two " frequently seen near Christchurch, Hants : " Yarrell, 

 I. c, and Wise, I. c. 



One seen in Ditton Park, March 1867: Clark Kennedy, /. c. 



One purchased in the flesh in Leadenhall Market, 6th Nov. 

 1868, but supposed to have been sent from Sweden with 

 CapercaiUie : Gurney, Zoologist, 1869, p. 1515. 



