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counties. Mr. W. Bazeley, of Northampton, received 

 a specimen for preservation that was picked np near 

 Brington on January 25th. On February 2nd, I 

 received a very clean specimen from the Rev. F. M. 

 Stopford, of Tichmarsh, with the information that 

 it had been found alive by a labourer at a pond-side 

 near that village. Another specimen, reported to 

 me by Mr. H, Field of Kettering, was captured at 

 Geddington, on February 1st ; and on the 2nd of that 

 month Mr. John Crisp brought me a good specimen 

 that had been taken at Elton on the previous 

 day. I believe that all the specimens that came to 

 my hands were birds of the year, and the majority 

 were certainly females. 



218. PUFFIN. 



Fratercula ardica. 



This quaint-looking sea-fowl is by no means an 

 exceedingly rare straggler to Northamptonshire, as 

 will be seen from the following list of the occurrences 

 that have come to my knowledge, probably by no 

 means a complete one even with regard to the period 

 that it includes. The earliest of my records refers 

 to a young Puffin, originally reported to me as a 

 Razorbill, that was picked up in Boughton Park 

 in the late autumn of 1869 and given to me stuffed, 

 about ten years subsequently, by Mr. Fred. Morton 

 Eden, who informed me that three or four more were 

 found in the immediate neighbourhood of Boughton 

 about the same time, during the continuance of a 

 heavy north-easterly gale. Captain J. A. M. Vipari 



