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June 30. Nine seen on the beach, at Hunstanton, Norfolk ; 

 three shot the week previous. — F. Tearle, the Field, July 4. 



July — . A specimen (the only one seen) killed near 

 Forest Gate, Essex. — J. Withers, the Field, July 18. 



July — . A pair shot on the coast at Nairn, Donegal. — 

 M. B. Cox, the Field, July 18. 



July — . A pair shot from a flock of thirteen on the sands 

 at Slapton Ley, near Kingsbridge, South Devon. The birds 

 were in good condition, and had fed sumptuously on grass 

 seeds. H. Nicholls, Jun. — Idem. 



June — . A specimen " caught in Renfrewshire seven or 

 eight weeks ago, and has thriven well on hemp seed, and is 

 now very tame." — The Field, August 1. 



" Specimens of this bird have been obtained in 1863 

 both in Denmark and Sweden, and in May last a small 

 flock was observed, out of which three were shot, flying over a 

 fallow field near Nykopping, in Sweden." — An old Bushman, 

 Sweden, July 81. The Field, August 15. 



May 28. Two specimens in fine condition shot out of a 

 flock of twelve or fifteen at Munchals, near Aberdeen ; crops 

 filled with turnip and grass seeds. — Edinburgh Neiv Philo- 

 sophical Journal, July, 1863. 



June 23. A male picked up dead at St. Agnes, one of the 

 Scilly Islands. — B. H. Rodd, in the Zoologist for August, p. 8682. 



June 10 or 12. A female shot close by the Land's End. — 

 E. H. Rodd, in the same. 



May 29. A female killed against the telegraph wire at 

 Box Hill, Surrey ; eight seen at Pevensey the day previous. — 

 D. Dutton, Zoologist, p. 8683. 



May 26. A female shot near Aldershot Camp, and another 

 observed. A day or two after another female was killed out of 

 a covey of nine. — M. A. Matthews, Idem, p. 8684. 



No date. Two males killed near Barnet. E. Newman, 

 Idem, p. 8685. 



I have been thus particular in enumerating the places and 

 date of occurrence in order to see what light they would throw 

 upon the subject ; and, although it is to be regretted that the 

 precise date has not been given by all the writers quoted, yet 

 enough has been done to show the broad features of the case. 

 Their route across the Continent appears to have been much 

 the same as in 1859. There is no possibility of ever knowing 

 their exact points of departure, but a course very little north of 

 west from the wide range of country they inhabit would bring 

 them to those parts of the Continent which some of them, at 

 least, have passed, and a continuation of the same direction 

 would land them on the coasts of Norfolk and Suffolk, where 

 the greatest numbers appear to have been met with. 



