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during the summer months; but there is no satisfac- 
tory evidence of its having nested here. 
BAR-TAILED GODWIT. Limosa lapponica (Linnzeus). 
A spring and autumn migrant, and much commoner 
than the following species; but, strange to say, no 
instance has been discovered of its nesting in the 
British Islands. 
BLACK-TAILED GODWIT. JLimosa egocephala (Lin- 
nus). 
A spring and autumn migrant. Formerly nested 
annually in the fens of Norfolk, Cambridge, Hunting- 
don, and Lincoln. 
CURLEW. Numenius arquatus (Linnzus). 
Resident; breeding in Scotland, Northumberland, 
Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Shropshire, North and South 
Wales, Devonshire, Cornwall, and in many parts of 
Ireland. 
WHIMBREL. Numenius pheopus (Linneus). 
A spring and autumn migrant—a few pairs re- 
maining to breed in Sutherlandshire and Caithness, 
as also in Orkney and Shetland. Mr. A. G. More 
states*, on the authority of Mr. Thomas Gough of 
Kendal, that the nest of the Whimbrel has been 
found on the mountains of Yorkshire, adjoining 
Westmoreland. 
* 'The Ibis, 1865, p. 434. 
