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Oyster-catcher. Resident . 

 Common Heron. 

 Common Bittern. 



Little Bittern, obs. Ardea minuta is admitted by Mr. Saunders as a 

 breeding species : There can be little doubt that it has bred on 

 some of the Broads of Norfolk and other localities. (" Saunders' 

 Manual," p. 369). 



Spoonbill. Not in Scotland. Formerly at Fulham, "Zool." 1886, p. 81. 

 Formerly also in Sussex (" Zool." 1877, p. 423 : " in the woods called 

 the Westwood and the Haselette" in the East Dean Park, 7 miles 

 from Chichester (fide a MS. Survey, dated 1570). 



Curlew. 



Whimbrel. Only in Shetland and Orkneys. Summer visitor. 



Common Redshank. 



Rainham Saltings, Kent. W. H. Power (in "Zool." N.S., 1866, 



p. 125). 

 Cauvey Island & Foulness, Essex. W. V. Legge ("Zool." 1866, 



p. 91). 



Pitsea Marshes, Essex, in 1863, 3 nests. J. E. Harting. 

 For S.E. Essex see "Zool." 1867, p. 602. 



[Green Sandpiper, obs. Said to have bred at Hunmanby (Norfolk). See 

 Stevenson, II. p. 226, note. And near Aberfoile, Perth (" Field," 

 21.8. 75, & 6. 5. 76).] 



Wood-Sandpiper. On Guillam Links, E. Lothian, June, 1867. E. T, 

 Booth. (Harting, note). Nest in Elginshire, 23rd May, 1853, same 

 year as at Newcastle. (Thurnall in "Naturalist," 1853, p. 254). Rare 

 visitor in spring and autumn. 



Common Sandpiper. 



Greenshank. Scotland only. 



West Cromarty, West Inverness (Harvie -Brown), (Harting, note). 



Inner Hebrides, Islay and Jura (R. Gray). 



Two or three pairs in Skye (Gray, " B. of W. Scotl." p. 301). 



Avocet. Not in Scotland. (Add to former breeding-places mentioned) : 

 Winterton and Horsey in Norfolk, near the Seven -mile House on the 

 Bure k (Stevenson, "B.ofNorf." ii.p. 238); the merelands at Thorpe, 

 near Aldeburgh (Hele, "Notes about Aldeburgh," p. 120); Foss 

 Dyke Wash, Lincoln (Pennant). 



Black-tailed Godwit. Not in Scotland. 



Ruff. Not in Scotland. 



Woodcock. In many parts of Ireland, chiefly on east side. 



Common Snipe. 



Dunlin. Add I. i. Nest found in Cornwall, fide Rodd in " Zool." 1868, 

 p. 1319. (21) Lancashire (Berry in " Mag. Nat. Hist." 1834, P- 599)- 

 Why not in Monmouth or other parts of S. Wales ? 



