426 Notice of the Arrival of Birds of Passage at Carlisle. 



Grey Plover is only occasionally met with in this part of the 

 couBty *. 



180. Long-tailed Duck [Clangula vulgaris), — The only spe- 

 cimen of this species that has been detected in this vicinity, to 

 the best of our knowledge, was killed about the 1st of Novem- 

 ber. It was a very young bird, but most fortunately proved 

 to be a male, so that we had the gratification of examining 

 the very singular trachea of this species, which Montagu has 

 figured with great accuracy in the Supplement to the Orni- 

 thological Dictionary. 



204. Razor Bill (Alca Torda). — A specimen of this bird 

 was killed on the 1st of January, in a rather singular locality, 

 namely, on the moors in the parish of Bewcastle, at no great 

 distance from the situation where the Turnstones above al- 

 luded to were seen. This bird was, no doubt, on its passage 

 either to or from the western coast. 



206. Crested Grebe {Podiceps cristatus), — An old male of 

 this species was obtained on Brugh Marsh on the 3rd of 

 October. Although young birds are now and then met with, 

 this is the only instance that has come to our knowledge of 

 the capture of an adult in this neighbourhood. 



213. Red-throated Diver {Colymhus septentrionalis) .-^ An 

 adult Red-throated Diver, in nearly full summer plumage, was 

 caught in a stake-net on the coast, on the 1st of May. Not- 

 withstanding the period of the year, the bird was very much 

 in moult. 



214. Foolish Guillemot (Uria Troile), — No less than three 

 specimens of this bird have been captured, at no great distance 

 from Carlisle, during the present year. The first in the be- 

 ginning of January, in the river Edin near Linstock ; the se- 

 cond on RockclifF Marsh, on the 8th of April; the third was 

 caught alive on Brugh Marsh, on the 10th of August. This 

 species is very seldom seen in the immediate vicinity of Car- 

 lisle. 



216. Little Auk or Common Rotche (Mergulus melanoleucos), 

 — A female of this species was found dead on the coast, a short 

 distance from Allonby, on the 6th of December ; another 

 was shot on the river Eden near Amathwaite Castle, in 

 the latter end of January 1794: the only two specimens of this 

 bird which have been detected in this district that we are at 

 present aware off. 



234. Roseate Tern {Sterna Dougallii). — A fine male of this 

 beautiful Tern, beyond all doubt the most elegant of the Bri- 



* Phil. Mag. and Annals, N.S., vol. viii. p. 448. 



t Hutchinson's History of Cumberland, vol. i. p. 20. 



