72 Capt. A. W. "Boyd on [Ibis, 



Nyroca fiiligula. Tufted Duck. 



At the end of March, at Sailly Laurette, Cappy, and 

 Peronne on the river Somme — not more than twenty 

 together, 



(Edemia nigra. Common Scoter. 



Ou 17 April three birds were on a flood by the river 

 Somme on tiie south side of Peronne; four seen from the 

 leave-boat on 11 May just outside Boulogne, and on 

 11 November many passing out at sea beyond Boulogne 

 harbour. 



(Edemia fusca. Velvet- Scoter. 



One on 11 November close in at Boulogne. 



Mergus serrator. Red-breasted Merganser. 

 On 10 November two flew up the channel of the Canche 

 estuary at low tide. 



Ardea cinerea. Heron. 



Odd birds seen from time to time at various places on the 

 river Somme, in the Canche estuary, near Bapaume and near 

 Bethune. On 31 July, 1918, I saw seventeen on the Canche 

 mudflats at low tide. 



Platalea leucorodia. Spoonbill. 



Ou 3 November a single bird at the mouth of the Canche, 

 near Paris Plage ; it flew to the sandbank iu midstream and 

 was driven off by the gulls there ; later I saw it flying Avildly 

 across the sky chased by two gulls. 



Gallinago gallinago. Snipe. 



At Le Touquet by the Canclie estuary in Novemt)er. 

 Not seen in many places apparently suitable. 



Tringa canutus. Knot. 



A flock of fourteen with four grey plovers in the Canche 

 estuary on 16 October. I was surprised to see a chestnut- 

 breasted bird among other waders in the Canche estuary on 

 28 July, 1918. 



