158 RARE VISITANTS. 



One, south of England : Selby, 111. Brit. Om. vol. ii. p. 294. 

 In the collection of the late Mr. Selby. 



One, Sanday, Orkney, October 1831 : Baikie and Heddle, 

 Hist. Nat. Orcadensis, p. 74; MacgiUivray, Hist. Brit. 

 Birds, vol. v. p. 21. 



One, Caithness : Wilson's ' Voyage round Scotland,' vol. ii. 

 p. 180 ; Shearer and Osborne, Birds of Caithness, in Proc. 

 Roy. Soc. Edinb. vol. ii. p. 340 ; Gray, Birds of West of 

 Scotland, p. 362. In the collection of Mr. Sinclair, of 

 Wick. 



One, Iken, near Orford, Suffolk, Jan. 1834 : Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 1834, vol. vii. p. 151 ; YarreU, Hist. Brit. Birds, vol. iii. 

 p. 236. In the possession of Mr. Manning, of Wood- 

 bridge. 



One on the Murrough of Wicklow, 7th July, 1847 : Thomp- 

 son, Ann. Nat. Hist. vol. xx. p. 171 j Nat. Hist. Ireland 

 (Birds), vol. iii. p. 65. In the collection of Mr. Warren. 



One seen near Blackstakes, Suffolk, 1864, in company with 

 Common Sheldrakes: Hele, Notes about Aldeburgh, 

 p. 150. 



One said to have been taken in a decoy on the Trent, near 

 Epworth : Hudson, Zoologist, 1864, pp. 9046, 9290. But 

 shown to have been a mistake : Newton, torn. cit. p. 9363. 



One near Tralee, co. Kerry, 17th Aug. 1869 : Blake Knox, 

 Zoologist, 1870, p. 2105. 



Obs. Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., informs me that this 

 species has twice been killed in Norfolk, but that on 

 each occasion the bird was found to have escaped 

 from semi-domestication. It is highly probable that 

 this has been the case with other specimens, which, on 

 being found at large, were supposed, in consequence, 

 to have been truly wild. 



