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The Birds of Lincolnshire. By the Rev. F. L. Blathwayt, 

 M.A., M.B.O.U. {Lincolnshire Naturalists^ V^iion Trans- 

 actions, 1914, pp. 178-211). 



The late John Corcleaux contributed miich on the subject 

 of Lincohishire birds, his Birds of the Humher District being 

 especially well known, and Mr. G. H. Caton Haigh has for 

 many years made most valuable observations in north-east 

 Lincolnshire, yet no complete list of the birds of Lincolnshire 

 has hitherto been published. Mr. Blathwayt's list is therefore 

 very welcome, and will form a valuable basis for workers 

 on the status and distribution of birds in Lincolnshire. A 

 very brief summary of the status and distribution of each 

 species is given, and a number is affixed to those birds 

 which the author definitely admits, while the species of 

 doubtful occurrence are left unnumbered. Some of those 

 numbered will require further consideration, as the evidence 

 for their admission is not quite conclusive, while further 

 research will no doubt result in the inclusion of others such 

 as the Rose-coloured Starling, of the occurrence of which 

 Mr. Blathwayt seems to have found no record. The 

 Ferruginous Duck is not included, and we are afraid that our 

 mention of Lincolnshire in the Hand-List as one of the counties 

 in which this bird has occurred is a mistake, originating in 

 Howard Saunders's statement {Manual, 2nd ed., p. 445) 

 that it has occurred " along the Trent Valley up to 

 Nottinghamshire." We think this should have read in 

 Nottinghamshire (where the bird has occurred three times) 

 and not " up to Nottinghamshire." Mr. Blathwayt mentions 

 a Dipper, which may have been Cinclus c. cinclus, obtained 

 about 1905 at Washingborough, and as there are so few 

 definite records of this race we hope the specimen, if still 

 available, will be submitted for comparison. The Indian 

 Roller recorded by Mr. Cordeaux was not, as stated by Mr. 

 Blathwayt, "probably an example of the European species " 

 (see Ibis, 1891, p. 147). We note some records omitted, as for 

 instance those of the Osprey, Kite and Hoopoe in the 

 Zoologist, 1884, pp. 70-1. 



The Scandinavian Rock-Pipit is said to occur as a winter 

 visitor to the coast : this may be so, but we know of no 

 character to distinguish it from the common Rock-Pipit 



