MISCELLANEA ORNITHOLOGICA. 



ADDITIONS TO THE AVIFAUNA OF DURHAM. 



In his remarkable but somewhat lengthy paper on the 

 Birds of Durham, read before the British Association at 

 York, and reprinted in the fourth volume of the Zoologist, 

 Mr. Hogg enumerates 202 species. From this number I 

 should deduct the Ringed Guillemot, (three or four have 

 been taken, but I deduct it as not being a good species,) 

 Golden Eagle, Scops-eared Owl, Chough, Great Black Wood- 

 pecker, Ptarmigan, Spotted Sandpiper, and Red -breasted 

 Goose, which leaves 194 well authenticated. Mr. W. Back- 

 house's additions (Zool, 1261) bring it up to 212, and I 

 shall now preceed to quote from various sources twenty- 

 five more very rare species, making a total result which will 

 compare favourably with most counties, and which I trust 

 will be putting a spoke in the wheel of some future faunist. 



Greenland Falcon. 



I will commence with that splendid species, the Greenland 

 Falcon, though I insert it, I am sorry to say, with some 

 doubt, albeit Mr. Green, naturalist of Stockton, avers posi- 

 tively that he met with one at Teesmouth chasing some 

 Terns, and shot it. 



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