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in an exhausted state, on the high-road between Edgcware and Stanmore.
One of these birds was found on one of the high downs near
Seaford, Sussex, of which It. V. Dennis, Esq. has informed me, and
of four others about the same time near Brighton; another [licked up
dead on or about the Oth. of November, 1850; one at Kottingdeau,
taken alive, December 14th., 1848. In Oxfordshire, one was found
dead in the winter of 1850-31, at Blenheim Park, near Woodstock,
the seat of his Grace the Duke of Marlborough; another in the parish
of Weston-on-thc-Grcen, in February, 18-38, others also; one shot near
Henley, in the year 1847; one also at Chipping Norton. In Durham
one, obtained by the Rev. A. Shafto. One in the county of Hereford.
I n the county of Cumberland, one was taken in a net in the Solway
Firth, in November, 1841; also in Derbyshire; and in Cambridgeshire
one at Bassingbournc.
In Hampshire, one was found dead in the year 1850, at Luccombc
Chine, in the Isle of Wight. Several near London; Mr. Yarrcll
bought one in the Leadenhall Market, alive at the time. In Shropshire
one, recorded by T. C. Eytou, Esq., of Eyton, near Shrewsbury.
In Cornwall, one was obtained near Penzance, in November, 1853;
others at Falmouth, Gwyllynvase, Carrack Road, and Swanpool, but
rarely, some however occur generally in the winter; in Devonshire
too, occasionally. One was picked up on llindhood, near Liphook,
Surrey; one in the neighbourhood of Haslemere, in the same county,
21st. of November, 1840; several near Duuswold, February 2nd., 1841.
Another in Gloucestershire; and four or five near Bristol, Somersetshire.
In Yorkshire, an individual was found at Kirkhammerton;
another in one of the streets of Halifax, December 10th., 1831; another
on Sutton Common, near Doncaster; three or four near York; one
shot near Sprotborough, on the River Don, in 1837; a few near Leeds.
I n Scotland the first British specimen was obtained near St. Kilda,
one of the Hebrides, in the summer of 1818. Since then one was
obtained in Dumfriesshire, in the lower part of Annandale, by Sir
Patrick Maxwell, B a r t . ; it was found dead. Another by John Jardine,
Esq.; and a fourth on St. Boswell's Green, in Roxburghshire. Also
in Caithuesshire.
I t has occurred in Ireland, but only occasionally, in the county of
Louth, etc.
These birds appear to be more shy than the other kinds, and seldom
follow ships in the same manner, sheering off after they have approached
them, and taking another and wider range, rambling over the seas both
in the dark and the light. They, like the others, discharge oil from
their tubular nostrils.
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