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writes me that it has bred in his warren at Formby, and that two 

 ecors and one bird from there are now in his collection. Else- 

 where there are no records" (Mr. F. S. Mitchell's 'Birds of 

 Lancashire,' p. 72). 



Cheshire. — Mr. T. A. Coward, of Bowdon, writes me word 

 that he has no note of its occurrence, though it has been reported 

 "on rather slender evidence" (in lift.). 



Lincolnshire. — " The Cirl Bunting is a rare bird here. The 

 only occurrences since 1887 I have any note of are : — an adult male 

 seen by me in this parish on Jan. 5th, 1889, the black feathers on 

 the throat being then edged with grey. Another on Dec. LOth, 1889, 

 seen on a hedge between Grainsby and Grimsby by my friend 

 Mr. G. H. Caton Haigh when driving. Mr. Eagle Clarke and 

 I also saw one near Spurn some years ago in the late autumn" 

 (Mr. J. Cordeaux, in litt). Mr. Cordeaux also mentions that he 

 has had several reports of its not uncommon occurrence in the 

 spring and summer near Gainsborough, and on the wild common 

 land and warrens in the Trent district. 



Norfolk. — When the late Mr. Stevenson published the first 

 volume of his * Birds of Norfolk' (1866), the only instances of the 

 occurrence of this bird in Norfolk were of a not very satisfactory 

 character — viz., the appearance of a specimen in the county (no 

 more exact locality was given) in November, 1849,. recorded by 

 the late Mr. J. H. Gurney in 4 The Zoologist' (p. 2651), and a 

 pair stated by a correspondent in 'The Field' (May 24th, 1856) 

 to have been killed in Norfolk in December, 1855, one of which 

 was said to have come into the possession of the Earl of Leicester 

 (< Birds of Norfolk,' p. 198). Mr. J. H. Gurney, in his list of the 

 Birds of Norfolk given in Mason's 'History of Norfolk' (1884), 

 was unable to add to these occurrences ; but in his " Additions 

 and Corrections" (December, 1885), he says, "Mr. E. T. Booth 

 tells me he obtained two females at Hickling in the autumn of 

 1875." In Messrs. Gurney and Southwell's ' List' (Trans. Norf. 

 and Norw. Nat. Soc, 1885-6), no further occurrences are recorded. 

 In January, 1889, Mr. Gurney wrote to * The Zoologist' :— " On 

 February [January] 29th [1888], two male Cirl Buntings were 

 netted on Breydon Marshes ; snow on the ground and 17° of frost 

 that night, indicating that they were fresh arrivals, most likely 

 from the interior .... The Cirl Banting is rare in Norfolk ; an 

 example, hitherto unrecorded, was seen some years ago at Hemp- 



