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Hampshire. — No recent specimens are known to Mr. Hart of 
Christchurch, but his museum contains a pair shot in 1854 
(cf. Kelsall’s ‘ List of The Birds of Hampshire’), and he is confident 
that it used to breed. 
Cambridgeshire. — Mr. John Brown of Cambridge tells Mr. A. H. 
Evans that no Bearded Tits bred except at Whittlesey, and never 
after it was finally drained; and there were never any breeding at 
Wicken fen, nor as far as he knows on the marshes past Littleport. 
In 1865, Mr. A. G. More (and Prof. Newton) considered it extinct, 
but perhaps it bred a little longer near Ely, where Mr. J. Titterton 
met with a good many in 1868, and subsequently. In 1897, 
Mr. Titterton saw fourteen at Boswell pits, and in the winter of 
1898 five came to the same spot, but as reed cutting was going on 
they did not stay. 
Huntingdonshire. — Mr. Dawson Rowley thinks one killed in 
November, 1866, was the last (Orn. Mis. vol. iii. p. 204), prior to 
which it was considered to be extinct by Mr. Bond. 
Bedfordshire. — Of accidental occurrence prior to 1867 (Steel 
Elliott). 
Dorsetshire. — Several have been met with in former years on 
‘the Fleet’ at Abbotsbury (Mansel-Pleydell). 
Devonshire. — Considered by the authors of ‘The Birds of Devon’ 
to have been a resident up to 1840, and H. Saunders thinks that 
it may possibly have bred in one instance as late as 1888. The 
Rev. Murray Mathew met with a Hock of ten in the autumn on 
one occasion. 
Corn wald. — Two occurrences. 
Lincolnshire. — Not uncommon in 1829 or earlier (Hoy), but no 
modern occurrence known to Mr. Cordeaux, though doubtless 
abundant enough on the south of the Wash, in the days of the Ruff, 
and has been known as a Lincolnshire bird for 150 years (Albin). 
Yorkshire. — Six reputed occurrences are given in ‘The Vertebrate 
Fauna of Yorks,’ and Mr. Allis speaks of it as formerly not uncom- 
mon near Huddersfield (Morris B. B. vol. i. 283). 
Northamptonshire. — Once met with by the late Lord Lilford. 
Middlesex. — Oneseen May 3rd, 1896(‘The Ornithologist,’ p. 73). 
Hertfordshire. — Near Tring and Hitchin in 1848 (Morris). 
Buckinghamshire. — A pair shot at Drayton some years prior to 
1868 (Clark Kennedy). 
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