296. RAMBLES OF A NATURALIST. 



Rock Martin, Cotyle rupestris (Scop.). 



Is the species alluded to in the fifteenth letter of the 

 White-Marshaiti correspondence (Norw. Nat. Soc, Trans, ii., 

 181). 



Barbary Partridge, Caccabis petrosa (Gm.). 



Bought one in the market with its throat cut, indicative 

 of its Moorish origin. 



Stone Curlew, Qidicneums crepitans, Tern. 



One in the market. As it was with the Partridges, it 

 may have come from Africa also. 



Curlew, Niwieniiis arqiiata (Linn.). 

 I saw two which a man had shot. 



Jack Snipe, Lymjiocryptes gallimda (Linn.). 



Ring Dotterel, ^gialitis hiatiada (Linn.). 



Kentish Plover, ^gialitis cantiana (Lath.). 



I found that I could distinguish these from the Ring 

 Dotterels by their speed in running, and greater disinclina- 

 tion to take wing. 



Sandwich Tern, Sterna cantiaca, Gm. 



At St. Roque. 



Great or Common Skua, Stercorarius catarractes (Linn.). 

 This bold bird was swimming within about sixty yards of 



