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Falco palumbarius. Wauwyl, Moosseedorf. 



Falco nisus. Moosseedorf. 



Falco buteo. Moosseedorf, Eobenhausen. 



Strix aluco. Concise. 



Strix otus. Moosseedorf. 



Strix bubo. Wangen. 



Sturnus vulgaris. Eobenhausen. 



Corvus corone. 



Corvus corax. 



Cinclus aquaticus. 



Columba palumbus. Moosseedorf. 



Tetrao bonasia. 



Tetrao lagopus. Moosseedorf. 



Ciconia alba. Not unfrequent at Moosseedorf and 

 Eobenhausen. 



Ardea cinerea. Eobenhausen. 



Grus cinerea. 



Fulica atra. 



Larus. Two sp. 



Mergus. 



Mergus merganser. Bienne. 



Cygnus olor. Eobenhausen. 



Anser segetum. 



Anas boschas. Eobenhausen, Moosseedorf, Wauwyl. 



Anas querquedula. 



Podiceps minor. Eobenhausen. 



The reptiles and fishes are represented by about ten of our 

 commonest species. 



The common mouse and our two house-rats, as well as the 

 domestic cat, are absent from the Lake-habitations of Switzer- 

 land, as also from the Kjokkenmoddings of Denmark ; the 

 same is the case with the common fowl, which seems, more- 

 over, to have been unknown to Homer and Hesiod ; Prof. 

 Eiitimeyer attributes to a later period a single bone of the 



