GItVAP TER VIE 
LITTORAL LAND BIRDS. 
Littoral Land Birds—White- Martins — Rock Dove— Stock 
tailed Eagle—Peregrine Falcon Dove — Heron — Various other 
— Raven — Fackdaw — Hooded species. 
Crow—Chough—Rock Pipit — 
UR survey of marine ornithology can scarcely 
be considered complete without a brief allu- 
sion to the various land birds that reside upon the 
coast. Many of these birds are, perhaps, most 
closely associated with inland districts, but others 
are just as essentially marine. Some of these 
species constantly reside by the sea, others are but 
found there during the bright summer days, whilst 
others yet again appear during autumn and winter 
only. Be the shore low sand or marshy slob-land, 
buttressed by precipitous cliffs, or fringed with 
rocky beaches and open downs, certain land birds 
form decided features in the scene, some of them 
very widely and very generally dispersed. In some 
cases these species show us how very readily birds 
can adapt themselves to their surroundings, or 
reconcile themselves to circumstances, finding as 
