List i' tin- Birds of tit- \ I '<>r<>st Dist r'u-t. [APP. 



III.) Not uncommon. My friend, Mr. 

 Tanner, has killed both male and female 

 in summer plumage. 



OYSTER-CATCHER. (Ha-matoptu ostra- 

 legus, Lin.) By no means uncommon. 



PCRPLE HEROX. (Ardea purpxrea, 

 Lin.) One or two specimens have 

 occasionally been shot. 



LITTLE EGRET. (Ardea garzetta, 

 Lin.) Mr. Rake informs me that one 

 was said to hare been shot some years 

 ago at Hale, on the borders of the 

 Forest. Yarrell mentions another(vol. ii.. 

 p. 554) killed, in 1822, on the Stonr near 

 Christchurch. 



SQUACCO HEROS. (Ardea raHuides, 

 Scop.) A solitary specimen, shot a few 

 years ago at Christchurch Harbour, is 

 now in Lord Malmesbury's collection. 

 See Eyton's Rarer British Birds, p. 100, 

 where Dewhnrst must probably be a 

 misprint for Christchurch. 



LITTLE BITTERX. (Ardea minuta, 

 Lin.) Mr. Hart, to whom I am under 

 so many obligations for notices of our 

 stragglers, informs me that a fine male 

 bird was shot, April, 26, 1362, on the 

 borders of the Forest, at Heron Court, 

 by one of Lord Malmesbnry's keepers. 



NIGHT HERON. (Nycticorajc ardeola, 

 Tern.) Mr. Hart has occasionally re- 

 ceived a specimen. 



GLOSSY IBIS. (Ibis falcineUus, Tern.) 

 Mr. Hart killed a young pair in a mea- 

 dow near Christchurch Harbour in Sep- 

 tember, 1859. 



WHIMBREL. (Numenivs phaopus, 

 Lath.) Not so very uncommon during 

 the late autumn and winter months along 

 the harbours of the coast. 



SPOTTED REDSHANK. ( Totanvs 

 fuscus, LeisL) On the authority of Mr. 

 Hart, who has killed it in Christchnrch 

 Harbour. 



AVOCET. (Recmrvirostra aoocttla. 

 Lin.) Mr. Rake informs me of a speci- 

 men shot at Exbury, Dec, 1858. 



BLACKTAILED GOD WIT. (Liatosa 

 melanura, Leisl.) Mr. Hart received 

 one in the spring of I860, and a fine 

 316 



specimen was killed by one of the 1 

 keepers, some twenty years ago, on 

 Ocknell pond. Hawker, who well knew 

 the sea-coast of the New Forest, men- 

 tions large flicks of" grey god wits " off 

 Keyhaven. May, 1842. but he does not 

 distinguish between this and the next 

 species. 



BARTAILED GODWIT. (Limasa rufa, 

 .' Briss.) Mr. Hart had two pair brought 

 ; to him from the Mndeford Marsh, in the 

 j summer of 1861. 



RCFF. (Machetes pugitar, Cuv.) A 

 specimen is now and then killed. 



GREAT SNIPE. (Scolopaje major, 

 GmeL) Generally one or two may be 

 seen in the Forest every winter. Mr. 

 Cooper, the Forest keeper, to whom I 

 have previously referred, tells me that 



durin the last twentv vears he has shot 







some six or seven specimens, and has 

 seen as many more killed. 



SABINE'S SNIPE. (Scoloptuc Sabini, 

 Vigors.) See Common Snipe (Scolopax 

 galiinago), in the list of residents, 

 p. 309. 



CCRLEW SANDPIPER. (Tringa sub- 

 arquata. Tern.) 



LITTLE STINT. (Triiitta minuta, 

 Leisl.) Like the preceding, not so very 

 unfrequent along the coast. 



PCRPLE SANDPIPER. ( Tringa mari- 

 tima, Briin.) Occasionally seen in 

 Christchnrch Harbour. 



SPOTTED CRAKE. (Go//imt/o por- 



zana, Lath.) Has been seen both in 



winter and summer ; and I should 



; not be surprised to hear of its breed- 



; ing. 



BAILLOS'S CRAKE. (GaUimuIa Bail- 

 ' lonii, Tern.) A female was shot near 

 Lanwood, in the Forest, Nov., 1860. 



GRET PHALAROPE. (PhaJaroptts 

 platyrhyncus, Tern.) Mr. Rake in- 

 forms me that several specimens were 

 killed on the Avon in the severe winter 

 ! of 1855-6, and again in 1860-1. Mr. 

 Tanner has a pair in his collection, 

 ' shot in the mouth of Christchurch 

 Harbour in summer plumage. 



