at Ilollington in 1849; one, a male, at Piddinghoe, near Lewes, on
the 31st. of March, and another on the 7th. of April, 1850; one near
Lewes, on the 20th. of November, 1849; one by Mr. J. B. Ellman on
the 20th. of March, 1851; and one at Brighton, Sussex, in 1830, near
which place six others were subsequently procured by Mr. George
Swaysland, one at Hove on the 16th. of October, 1839, another on the
3rd. of the following December, the remainder, three males and a
female, afterwards, one of the former in March, 1843, one also on the
26th. of November, 1851; one at Ralton, near Eastbourne, in the
same county, in April, 1852; one near Oxford in March, 1852; and
one in Norfolk, about the first week in November, 1849.
A male was shot on the rocks under Plymouth citadel by John
Gatcombe, Esq., as he informs me, in March, 1849, and a female in
November, 1850. A few examples were also procured near that town
in November, 1856; others at Mount Edgecombe. One near Swanpool
and the Castle Head, iu Cornwall, in May, 1847, in fact a few occur
every season about there. Pour have been procured, and live or six
others seen, near Penzance; one, believed to be a female, captured
by some boys at Larigan, between that place and Newlyn; one shot
near Marazion, in January, 1842, by Mr. Vingoe, of Penzance; another
near Larigan, in December, 1842; and a fourth by Alfred Greenwood,
Esq., near Marazion, on the 8th. of February, 1843; one at Perran at
the end of March, or beginning of April, 1843; and one or two at
Hayle on the 28th. of November in the same year; one near Falmouth
in 1849. AVilliam Felkin, Esq., Junior, of Carrington, near Nottingham,
has written me word of one killed near London; another was shot near
Alvcrstoke, Hampshire; and another, on the 2nd. of December, 1842,
near Bonchurch, in the Isle of Wight. Two at Tcignmouth, Devonshire,
where another had been previously procured, one on the 3rd.
and the other on the 10th. of January, 1844, by Robert C. R. Jordan,
Esq. and his brother, who subsequently saw several others, and procured
a male on the 30th. of that month, and a female on the 21st. of
February; about twenty more were procured near Devonport, in the
same county, between the months of November, 1843, and February,
1844, as recorded in the 'Zoologist,' pages 495-6, by W. S. Hore, Esq.;
one, a female, in Torbay in November, 1849, and another, a male, in
1847; so also R. A. Julian, Esq., Junior, relates in 'The Naturalist,'
volume i., page 44, that upwards of twenty were procured in the year
1850, sixteen of them by one person, in the neighbourhood of Plymouth
and Devonport, in Devonshire; also at Barnstaple. One was obtained
at Bembridge, in the Isle of Wight, by A. G. More, Esq., on the 9th.
of December, 1852.