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SCOLOPAX KUSTICOLA. Woodcock. 



From the llth to the end of March I often saw Woodcock 

 in Lacroma ; but whether there were few or many of them I 

 cannot say, for the impassable thorny scrub makes it difficult 

 to put them up even with dogs ; and the Woodcock, when 

 on its travels and tired, flies very little of its own accord. 



I also saw flocks of both Plovers and Sandpipers passing- 

 over Lacroma towards the north on the 10th of March. At 

 the end of the month I observed them singly and in pairs at 

 the rocks of Lacroma, and in April on the marshes and 

 lagoons of the Narenta, the Mar di Novigrad, the Lago di 

 Vrana, and the banks of the rivers in the north of Dalmatia. 



I could make out at least five or six kinds of larger or 

 smaller species, but they were always at such a distance either 

 from the steamer or the boat that it was impossible to identify 

 them accurately. 



RECTJRVIROSTRA AVOCETTA. Avocet. 



On March 30th a few were seen flying past Lacroma, from 

 south to north, during rainy windy weather. 



NUMENIUS ARQUATUS. Curlew. 



On April 9th I saw some on a marshy bit of fallow ground 

 on the bank of the Narenta. 



CICONIA ALBA. White Stork. 



In the beginning of April I saw single Storks flying at a 

 great height between Ragusa and Trebinje. 



ARDEA CINEREA. Grey Heron. 



From March llth to the beginning of April I often saw 

 Grey Herons passing over Lacroma without stopping, singly 

 and even in flocks of six or seven. On March 18th I also 



