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BIRDS OF LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND. 
In Rutland. — As in Leicestershire. — Mr. R. Tryon, of Oakham, writes me : — 
“The Osprey was seen quite close on April 2nd, 1886, and caught a fish. For 
some years, about 1879 to 1883, an Osprey visited the Burley Ponds every year, 
almost always on the same day, staying about thirty hours; it was in April. 
I saw a paragraph in the ‘ Grantham Journal,’ saying such a bird had been seen 
at Sir G. Beaumont’s, Coleorton, and the following year another paragraph saying 
it had been shot by the keeper. On each occasion I had seen the bird myself 
here the day before, and after it was shot no Osprey came for two or three years.” 
Order STEGANOPODES. 
Family PELE CANIDS. 
CORMORANT. Phalacrocorax carbo (Linnaeus). 
An accidental straggler from the coast, and I have no other record save 
that furnished by Mr. Macaulay, who took me to see an immature bird in the 
possession of Mr. J. Potter, station-master of East Langton, who told me that 
it was caught alive in a grass-field near Langton Hall on 6th Sept., 1883, after a 
strong gale the previous day from the S.W. 
GANNET. Sula bassana (Linnjeus). 
“ Solan Goose.” 
An accidental straggler from the coast. — Harley recorded that a young male 
of the year was picked up in a dying condition on the borders of Buddon Wood, 
near Quorndon, date unfortunately not noted. Mr. Babington (Appendix ‘ Potter,’ 
p. 70) supplemented this by saying that it was in the possession of Miss Wat- 
kinson of Woodhouse. Potter, of Billesdon, records a specimen caught alive at 
Houghton-on-the-Hill, in September, 1869. Mr. Macaulay records (‘Mid. Nat.,’ 
1882, p. 79) that an immature bird of this species, which had been wounded, was 
picked up half dead at Shangton in 1878, and that he saw it, after it was set up, in 
the possession of Mr. Ward, farm-bailiff, Wistow. Mr. Ingram writes : — “ A young 
bird, shot between Bottesford and Scarrington, near the River Smite, is in the 
possession of Mr. H. V. Flower, of Scarrington.” The late Mr. Widdowson wrote : 
— “ One killed at Somerby near here ” (N.D.). 
In Rutland. — As in Leicestershire. — Mr. N. L. Calcraft writes me that a 
young bird of the year was picked up at Edith Weston somewhere about 1876, and 
is now in the possession of IMr. R. Lucas, J.P., of Edith Weston Hall ; and 
Mr. Horn writes that a specimen was caught alive near Uppingham in 1886, and is 
now in the possession of Mr. Haslam, one of the IMasters at Uppingham School. 
This was reported in the ‘ Field.’ 
