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J^rlngilla domestica. House sparrow, F. Linota, Grey linnet, re, c 



re, c * linaria, Lesser redpole, s.p, c 



coeUebs, Chaffinch, re, c Carduelis, Goldfinch, re, c 



Zi/goddctyli. 



Cuculus canorus. Cuckoo, s.p, c 



Anisoddctt/li. 



Certhia familiaris. Creeper, re, v.r 



Alcpones. 

 -<41cedo Tspida, Kingfisher, a.v, v.r. 

 CJielidones. 

 /firundo rustica, Chimney swallow, H. ^^us. Swift, s.p, ra 



s.p, c Caprimulgus europae^us. Nightjar, 



urbica, Martin, s.p, c s.p, c 



riparia. Sand martin, s.p, c 



QolumbcB. 

 Columba Palumbus, Ring dove, re, c C. Turtur, Turtle dove, a.v, v.r 



GallincB. 

 Phasianus colchicus. Pheasant, a.v, r T. P^rdix, Partridge, re, c 

 Tletrao scoticus, Red grouse, re, c Coturnix, Com. quail, a.v, v.r 



Grallatores. 



Charadrius Calidris, Sanderling, v.r A. stellaris. Bittern, re, v.rf 



Haematopus ostralegus, Oyster ^Scolopax arquata, Curlew, re, c 



catcher, re, c Phse^opus, Whimbrel, s.p, c 



Charadrius pluvialis. Golden plover, Trfnga alpina. Dunlin, s.p, c 



re, c Cinclus, Purre, a.p, c J 



Hiaticula, Ring dottrel, re, c maritima, Purple sandpiper of 



Tringa Vandllus, Lapwing, s.p, c Montagu, re, c 



interpres, Turnstone, re, c 1 cinerea, Ash-colrd. Sandp., v.r 



Morinella, Turnstone, re, c J iScolopax Calidris, Redshank, re, c 



-^'rdea major, Heron, re, c leucophae^a, Godwit, re, c § 



* I have had a milk-white sparrow in confinement for two years : it was 

 taken from the nest, is very sprightly, and a female. At its moults there 

 has been no change in the colour of its plumage : it has got the eyes of all 

 albinoes. 



-)- I am informed that bitterns were very common in this country thirty 

 years ago : from increased cultivation and population they are now, how- 

 ever, very rarely met with. 



J Notwithstanding the opinion of Temminck and Montagu, I am still 

 inclined to consider the purre and dunlin distinct. I have always found 

 the former with a longer bill and larger body than the latter ; and though 

 this may arise from a difference of age, which, I have always found, has a 

 material effect in both these respects, yet, as I have never met with them 

 in a state of change from one to the other, although both are very nume- 

 rous here at different seasons, I hesitate to adopt their opinions, though 

 the former has done more than any of his predecessors, by judicious 

 distinction, to elucidate this family, which is involved in much confusion. 



§ Of the god wits, or family of Limosa, Temminck mentions only two varie- 

 ties ; malinura having the bill straight ; and rufa, having it curved upwards. 

 There are, however, two varieties, both of them common in this country, 

 having the latter character of bill, leucophae^a of Linnaeus (improperly, by 

 Bewick, called ^gocephala of that author), and canescens of Linnaeus and 

 Montagu : of these, the latter is so much smaller, so much shorter in the 

 bill, and has so different a cry from the common godwit, that there can be no 

 doubt of the propriety of including these three varieties in the family Liradsa. 



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