one in August, 1815, one by Captain Manby, near the Hospital, in
April, 1820, and one in April, 1833. In Norfolk, one at Brooke
Hall and one at Thetford, in September, 1843, and some others. In
Northumberland, a small flock was seen near Bamburgh Castle, in
J u l y , 1818, in company with Starlings; one, a male, about the same
time near Newcastle; and two others were shot near Alnwick. In
Lincolnshire also; and subsequently one in Durham. In Lancashire,
two in the neighbourhood of Ormskirk. In Hampshire, a pair were
seen near Christchurch, and the male was procured. In Derbyshire,
one about the year 1809, near Weston, and another was observed
near Melbourne, in October, 1842, in company with Starlings, but,
being close to some sheep, it could not be fired at. In Sussex this
b i r d has also been procured.
One was shot near Lostwithiel, in Cornwall, by Philip Pomeroy,
Esq., about the year 1822, and another by Boughton K i n g d o n , Esq.,
my informant, about the year 1835, in the autumn; it was in an
elder tree, and was attacked by Swallows and other small birds. Also
one at Helston; and one in the Scilly Islands; and another was shot
at St. Budeaux, in the neighbourhood of Plymouth, on the 17th. of
J u n e , 1851. An adult male was shot at Eastwood, near Nottingham,
in October, 1851, as William Felkin, Esq., Jun., of Carrington, near
that place, has written me word; one at Topsham, in Devonshire, of
which N. Rowe, Esq., of Worcester College, Oxford, has informed me;
and one at Alphington Cross, near Exeter, in the summer of 1852.
One at Chudleigh, on the 18th. of J u n e , 1851; one at Berry Head,
on the 12th. of the same m o n t h ; and one about the same time of the
year in 1845; another near K i n g ' s Tamerton. One was shot in Oxfordshire,
another near Oxford, in the spring of 1837, and another in
February, 1838. In Caermarthenshire, one shot while eating cherries
in a nursery garden at Swansea, in July, 1836. In Glamorganshire,
one in a garden near Swansea, in 1836. In Anglesea, one at Holyhead.
I n Scotland, one at D u n k e l d , and another shot in a garden in Forfarshire,
on the 29th. of September, 1831. One also at West Ord,
near Bcrwick-on-Tweed, in J u l y , 1832.
I n Ireland several have been taken.
I n Shetland, one was seen by Thomas Edmonston, Esq., in the
month of A p r i l ; it wras associating with Starlings. Two were shot in
September, 1863, by I I . L. Saxby, Esq., of Baltasound, one of them
a young male in its first autumnal plumage.
I n the Orkney Islands one was procured, of which my friend
Hugh Edwin Strickland, Esq. has informed me, and another, a
female, was taken at Hoy, where others also have been observed;
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