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during the summer months ; but there is no satisfac- 

 tory evidence of its having nested here. 



BAE-TAILED GODWIT. Limosa lapponica (Linnaeus). 



A spring and autumn migrant, and much commoner 

 than the following species; but, strange to say, no 

 instance has been discovered of its nesting in the 

 British Islands. 



BLACK-TAILED GODWIT. Limosa cegocephala (Lin- 

 naeus). 



A spring and autumn migrant. Formerly nested 

 annually in the fens of Norfolk, Cambridge, Hunting- 

 don, and Lincoln. 



CURLEW. Numenius arquatus (Linnaeus). 



Resident; breeding in Scotland, Northumberland, 

 Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Shropshire, N >rth and South 

 Wales, Devonshire, Cornwall, and in many parts of 

 Ireland. 



WHIMBREL. Numenius phceopus (Linnaeus). 



A spring and autumn migrant a few pairs re- 

 maining to breed in Sutherlandshire and Caithness, 

 as also in Orkney and Shetland. Mr. A. G. More 

 states*, on the authority of Mr. Thomas Gough of 

 Kendal, that the nest of the Whimbrel has been 

 found on the mountains of Yorkshire, adjoining 

 Westmoreland. 



* The Ibis, 1865, p. 434. 



