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Knot {Camitus canutus). — An injured female was caught 

 in Salisbury on Feb. 27th, 1906 {Zool, April, 1906). 



Dunlin {Erolia a. alpina). — One was shot near the river 

 Ray on Jan. 24th, 1907 {W.A.S N.H., XXXV., p. 150). 



G-REY Phalarope {PJiolaropus fulicarius) . — Mr. Cambridge 

 Phillips tells me of one at Buryto^\-n Blunsden and another 

 at Holt (no dates). One was shot at the end of Se^^t., 1889, 

 at Collingbourne Ducis {M.C.N. H.). Mr. Ward shot one at 

 Calstone (no date), and in the Devizes Museum are tliree (one 

 in full summer-plumage), shot near Downton (no date). 



[Red-necked Phalarope {Phalaropus lobatus). — One 

 recorded from Marlborough in 1869 {Birds of Wiltshire, 

 p. 450) turns out to be a Grey Phalarope {M.C.N. H., 1904).} 



Whlvibrel {Numenius ph. phceopus). — One was caught 

 wounded on August 20th, 1877, and on May 15th, 1890, five 

 Avere seen and two shot on the Downs near Kennet 

 {M.C.N.H.). 



Common Snipe {Gallinago g. gallinago). — Two nests were 

 found near Marlborough 1909 {M.C.N.H. and Brit. B.. HI., 

 p. 29), and Mr. Vaughan tells me it almost certainly nested 

 at Milton in 1913. 



Black Tern {Hydrochelidon n. nigra). — Mr. Cambridge 

 Phillips tells me of one at Chippenliam in 1858 ; a pair Avere 

 seen at Ramsbury Park on May 16th, 1901 {M.C.N.H.), 

 and several were seen at Amesbury in Aug., 1911. 



Great Black-backed G-ull {Larus marinus). — I saw one 

 on the Downs above Alton Wiite Horse on April 23rd, 1910. 



KiTTiWAKE G-ULL {Bissa t. tridactyla). — One was found 

 dead in Savernake on Feb. 5th, 1890, and a young one was 

 shot on the Canal Reservoir near Wolf all on July 17th, 1890 

 (M.C.N.H.). 



Common Guillemot {Uria t. troille). — The Blackmore 

 Museum has a specimen shot at Amesbury in 1888. 



Little Auk {Alle alle). — "Two, one about 1855" 

 {M.C.N.H.). One at Winterbourne duruig 1912 " Avreck " 

 {Brit. B., VI., p. 69), and Mr. Rawlence teUs me that one 

 was picked w^ in Grovely Wood on Dec. 11th, 1912. 



Puffin {Fratercula a. arctica). — Six or seven were seen 

 and one killed by wire, on Nov. 20th, 1893, after a three 

 days' gale from the north, at Codford St. Mary {W.A.c&!N.H., 

 XXXVII., p. 185). 



