Q24 DUTCH AND ENGLISH BIRDS. 
Genus Fulica. 
Fulica atra Linn. 
A numerous resident in suitable places of Holland, par- 
tially leaving in autumn. 
Resident in the Br. Isl. 
Order ALECTORIDES. 
Genus Grus. 
Grus communis Bechstein. 
A rare autumnal visitor to Holland. A rare straggler to 
the Br. Islands. 
Genus Otis. 
Otis tarda Linn. 
An irregular winter visitor to Holland and the Br. Isl. 
Otis tetrax Linn. 
A rare straggler to Holland and the Br. Isl. 
Genus Houbara. 
Houbara Macqueeni (Gray). 
Has once occurred in 1850 near Zeist, Utrecht (Bouw- 
stoffen, N°. 134, I, bl. 212), and once in England in 1847 — 
in Lincolnshire. 
Order LIMICOLAE. 
Genus Oedienemus. 
Oedicnemus scolopax (Gmelin). 
A sparingly distributed summer visitor to Holland, bree- 
ding in the dunes of Zuid Holland and Noord Holland 
and in Noord Brabant. A summer visitor to England, rare 
in Scotland and Ireland. 
Genus Glareola. 
Glareola pratincola (Linn). 
On specimen was caught on the 24th of July 1892 near 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XV. 
