19^^] some Cretan Birds. G85 



out of which ;i stream meandered throiigli tlio swamp till it 

 flowed into the sea over the shinole. 



Limnocryptes gallinula. 



Jack >Siiij)e were fairly plentiful during the winter : on 

 one occasion I shot eight. 



Totanus ochropus. 



Common along the coast, as was Totanus totanus. 



Numenius arquata. 



Very plentiful during the winter on the sandhills along 

 the coast. 



Numenius phaeopus. 



1 failed ti) identify the Whimbrel^ hut the late Sir 

 Herbert C'hennside, at that time British Commissioner in 

 Crete, assured me that he had seen it there, also that 

 during April a specimen of the Spur-winged Plover 

 (Hoplopterus spinosus) had been shot near Candia ; being a 

 naturalist and a s[>ortsm;in he was probably correct. 



Sterna hirundo. 



" Candia, 27 Septeml)pr, On the edge of a shallow^ over- 

 flow of the sea I to-day flushed a lai-ge flock of these Tern, 

 and with them a few very small ones, with black ni;irkings 

 on their face, probably Sterna minvta." 



Lams argentatus. 



'• Ciindia, li\ October. To-day while sailing along the 

 coast I passed through flocks of the Mediterranean Herring- 

 Gull, so close that I noted their plumage: the irides were 

 straw-colour, beak and legs yellow, the fornun' with a red 

 blotch on the lower mandible. 



"Another species, about 23 in. in length, had dark brown 

 irides, beak bhick, legs flesh-colour, plumage white mottled 

 with dark brown, broad terminal band of brown across the 

 tail, inner webs of primaries and tips of secondaries white, 

 but the Gulls, with their many changes of plumage, are 

 diificult to identify." 



SER. XI. — VOL. IV, 2 ■/. 



