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another was picked up at Edington on Dec. 4tli. 1909 

 {W.A.dhN.H., XXXVI., p. 487). 



Leach's Fork-tailed Petrel [Oceanoclroma hucorhoa). 

 — One was picked up dead in Grovely Wood on Oct. lOtli, 

 1896 {Field, Oct. 17tli, 1896). 



Manx Shearwater {Puffinus p. pufjinus). — One was 

 picked up on Mere Down on May 6th, 1888 {Field, May 19th, 

 1888) ; Mr. Ward tells me of one ]3icked up near Calne on 

 Sept. 1st, 1899 ; Mr. Picket received two males and a female 

 from Bishopstone about 1904 : one was picked up at Wooton 

 Bassett on Aug. 29th, 1910 {Field, Sept. 13th, 1910), and 

 Mr. McNiven tells me of another on the same date near 

 Alton Barnes. 



Great-crested Grebe {Colymbus c. cristatus). — One was 

 seen on Braden Pond on April 3rd, 1912 {W.A.<bN.H., 

 XXXVII., p. 615). 



Great Northern Diver {Gavia immer), — One was shot 

 by Dr. Blackmore near Salisbury some years ago. 



Red-throated Diver {Gavia stellata). — One was picked up 

 injured at Wvlye in the beginning of Feb.. 1909 — it is now 

 in the Devizes Museum {W.A.d: N.H., XXXVI., p. 140). 



Pallas's Sand-Grouse {Syrrhaptes paradoxus). — ^A covey of 

 about twenty was seen for several daj^s previous to Mav 20th, 

 1888 {Field,'^ JwnQ 2nd, 1888). 



Oystercatcher {Hcematopus o. ostralegus). — One was 

 picked up dead on tlie Downs near Marlborough in 1904 

 {M.C.N.H.). 



Cream-coloured Courser {Cursorius g. gallicus). — ^There 

 is a full account of one which was shot on the Downs 

 above Earlestoke on Oct. 10th, 1896, in the Zoologist for 

 November, 1896, and in the W.A. db N.H., XXIX, p. 70. 



Dotterel {Charadrius morinellus). — Two were shot at 

 Totterdown about 1900 ; two at Choltern on Sept. 8th, 

 1905 ; four Avere shot out of eight at Codford on Sept. 15th, 

 1904, and another at the same place on Sept. 8th, 1905. 

 Mr. M. Vaughan hears that it is sometimes seen on the Plain 

 in the second week in May. 



Ringed Plover {Charadrius h. kiaticula). — Two were 

 shot at West Kennet in 1883 {M.C.N.H.), and Mr. Ward 

 shot one at Blackland in June, 1889. 



Ruff {Machetes pugnax). — A reeve was shot at Ramsbury 

 on Dec. 22nd, 1879 {M.C.N.H.). 



