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opportunity for pursuing the subject. Of the 266 species 

 recorded by Mansel-Pleydell as having occurred in Dorset, 

 it may be found necessary to eliminate six, namely, the three 

 rare Woodpeckers, which the authorities have not yet ad- 

 mitted to the British List, the Egyptian Goose, which was 

 most probably an escape from confinement, the Polish Swan, 

 which is not now considered to be a separate species from the 

 Mute Swan, and the Golden Eagle. I have lately examined 

 the specimen recorded from Sherborne Park and referred to by 

 Mansel-Pleydell, and it is certainly a White-tailed Eagle, 

 as is also the Dorchester Museum specimen ; and, although 

 the species is thought to have occurred on two or three 

 subsequent occasions in the county, the evidence, as given in 

 the proceedings of the Dorset Field Club, cannot be considered 

 conclusive. 



The nomenclature in the following list follows the B.O.U. 

 List of 1915 : 



1. Nutcracker. Nucifraga caryocatactes. 



One seen near Bingham's Melcombe, November, 1906. D.F.C. 

 Transactions, Vol. 28, p. 261. 



2. Two-barred Crossbill. Loxia leucoptera bifasciata. 

 Mr. S. H. Wallis, of Weymouth, stated that he saw a pair of 

 these birds in an apple tree at Westham at a distance of a few 

 yards, on June 4th, 1917. 



3. Ortolan Bunting. Emberiza hortulana. 



A specimen in the Dorchester Museum from Weymouth was 

 presented with the Thompson collection. The late William 

 Thompson, of Weymouth, made a local collection of birds 

 and recorded rarities about the middle of the last century. 



4. Lapland Bunting. Calcarius lapponicus. 



One seen near Wareham, January 30th, 1912. D.F.C., Vol. 33, 

 p. 234, and Vol. 34, p. 201. 



5. Short-toed Lark. Calandrella brachydactyla. 



A specimen in the Dorchester Museum from near Weymouth 

 (Thompson collection). 



6. Blue-headed Wagtail. Motacilla flava. 



One seen in Poole Park, Oct. 17, 1913. D.F.C., Vol. 35, p. 187, 



