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Pocecctes gramineus (Gm.). 

 Zonotrichia alhicollis (Gm.). 

 Spizella breweri (Aud.). 

 Mehspiza lincolni (Aud.). 

 Corvus americanus, Aud. 

 Tetrao franklini, Dougl.* 

 Lagopus rupestris (Gm.)*. 

 Nyctiardea gardeni (Gm.). 

 ^gialitis vociferus (L.). 

 Sqnatarola helvetica (L.). 

 Strepsilas interpres (L.). 

 Tringa maculata, Vieill. 

 Calidris arenaria (L.). 

 Gambetta flavipes (Gm.). 

 Rhyacophilus solita7'ius (Wils.). 

 Querquedula discors (L.). 

 Q. cyanoptera (Vieill.) . 



Spatula clypeata (L.). 

 Aix sponsa (L.). 

 Fulix offinis (Eyton). 

 Bucephala islandica (Gm.). 

 Erismatura rubida (Wils.). 

 Larus argentatus, Briinn. 

 L. occidentalis, Aud. 

 L. calif ornicus, Lawr. 

 L. delaivarensis, Ord. 

 Chroicocephalus Philadelphia 



(Ord). 

 Rissa septentrionalis, Lawr. 

 Podiceps cristatus (L.). 

 Podilymbus podiceps (L.). 

 Ceratorhina suckleyi, Cass. 

 Brachyrhamphus temmincki, 



Brandt. 



XXXIV. — A Sketch of the Birds of Portugal. 

 By the Eev. A. C. Smith, M.A. 



The following observations on the Ornithology of Portugal are 

 the result of a visit which I paid to that country in April and 

 May of the present year. They are necessarily meagre and 

 incomplete, and will amount at the most to a very imperfect 

 sketch; perhaps I should say, a mere outline, as rapid travelling 

 amidst novel scenes admits of little leisure for detailed examina- 

 tion, and every practical ornithologist is w^ell aware that suffi- 

 cient time and prolonged research alone enable one to arrive at 

 any accuracy. 



Having said thus much at the outset to disarm expectation, I 

 may add, for the information of those who naturally look for a 

 critical paper in this journal, that I should not have ventured to 

 offer to the pages of * The Ibis ' any crude observations on the 



* Botli these may be found, I should think, about the snowy moun- 

 tains we saw in the interior of the northern portion of the island. 



