118 BIRDS OF GUERNSEY. 



mentioned. These are all the mstances of the 

 occurrence of the Little Bustard in the Channel 

 Islands that I have been able to gain any intel- 

 ligence of, but they are sufficient to show that 

 although by no means a common visitant, it does 

 occasionally occur on both spring and autumn 

 migration. 



It is not included in Professor Ansted's list. 

 There is, however, a specimen in the Museum, 

 which I was told, when I saw it in 1866, had been 

 killed the i)revious year, but there is no date of 

 the month, and I should think, from the state of 

 plumage, it was an autumn-killed specimen : it is 

 still in the Museum, as I saw it there again this 

 year, 1878. This is probably the bird mentioned 

 by Mr. MacCulloch as killed in 1865, and also 

 very likely the one spoken of by Mr. Couch, in 

 1875, as having been killed in St. Andrew's fifteen 

 years ago ; but there seems to have been some 

 mistake as to Mr. Couch's date for this one, as, 

 had it been killed so long ago as 1860, it would in 

 all probability have been included in Professor 

 Ansted's list, and mentioned by Mr. Gallienne in 

 his remarks on some of the bii'ds included in 

 the list. 



101. Thick-knee. GEdicnemns scolopax, S. G. 

 Gmelin. French, " CEdicneme criard," " Poule 



