i;6 AN EAST COAST NATURALIST 



'. d. 



Marsh Harriers (male 



and female) . .440 

 Whiskered Tern. . 6 16 6 

 Roseate Tern . . o 10 6 

 White - winged Black 



Tern .^ J i' ;?: . iz 12 o 

 Black Terns (male and 



female) . . . f . 3 30 

 Black Stork . . n n o 

 Brown Snipe . .13130 



Hoopoes (male 



female) . . - 

 Buffel-headed Duck 



and 



3 



26 



Red-crested Whistling 



Duck . . . 21 10 6 

 Black - tailed Godwits 



(male and female) . 2126 

 Ruffs (six specimens) . 330 

 Eared Grebe (male and 



female summer) . 4 14 6 

 Little Bitterns (male 



and female) . -55 

 Spoonbills (male and 



female) . ,"],,. >v . 10 10 o 

 Purple-Sandpipers 



(male and female) . i i o 



SHORT NOTES FROM THE DIARY 

 In making notes from day to day not a few 

 interesting items, short and concise, yet considered 

 of value by the author, have been jotted down. 

 Scarcely of sufficient moment to enlarge into para- 

 graphs, they are here given under the separate years. 

 Their brevity will be as noticeable as their variety. 



1878 



Sept. 17. Kingfishers have been very numerous in 

 the locality. Not a rare thing has it been to see 

 half a dozen birds in the course of a walk before 

 breakfast by the river Sure. Many were killed; 

 one man having eleven preserved in one case. 

 They realised from fourpence to sixpence apiece. 



