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ScoLtopax RusTICOLA. Woodcock. 
From the 11th to the end of March I often saw Woodcock 
in Lacroma ; but whether there were few or many of them I 
cannot say, for the impassable thorny scrub makes it difficult 
to put them up even with dogs; and the Woodcock, when 
on its travels and tired, flies very little of its own accord. 
I also saw flocks of both Plovers and Sandpipers passing 
over Lacroma towards the north on the 10th of March. At 
the end of the month I observed them singly and in pairs at 
the rocks of Lacroma, and in April on the marshes and 
lagoons of the Narenta, the Mar di Novigrad, the Lago di 
Vrana, and the banks of the rivers in the north of Dalmatia. 
L could make out at least five or six kinds of larger or 
smaller species, but they were always at such a distance either 
from the steamer or the boat that it was impossible to identity 
them accurately. 
RECURVIROSTRA AVOCETTA. Avocet. 
On March 30th a few were seen flying past Lacroma, from 
south to north, during rainy windy weather. 
NuMENIUS ARQUATUS. Curlew. 
On April 9th I saw some on a marshy bit of fallow ground 
on the bank of the Narenta. 
CrconrA ALBA. White Stork. 
In the beginning of April I saw single Storks flying at a 
great height between Ragusa and Trebinje. 
ARDEA CINEREA. Grey Heron. 
From March 11th to the beginning of April I often saw 
Grey Herons passing over Lacroma without stopping, singly 
and even in flocks of six or seven. On March 18th I also 
