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Mr. Klein gives much the same account of those of Poland and 

 Prussia. 



20. Rails and Gallinules. Every species of these two genera 

 continues with us the whole year ; the land rail excepted, which is 

 not seen here in winter. It likewise continues in Ireland only 

 during the summer-months, when they are very numerous, as Mr. 

 Smith tells us, iu the History of Waterford, p. 336. Great num- 

 bers appear in Anglesea the latter end of May ; it is supposed they 

 pass over from Ireland, the passage between the two islands being 

 but small. As we have instances of these birds lighting on ships 

 in the Channel and the Bay of Biscay, we may conjecture their 

 winter-quarters to be in Spain. 



Fin-footed Water-Birds. 



21. Phalaropes. Visit us but seldom; their breeding-place is 

 Lapland, and other arctic regions. 



22. Grebes. The great crested grebe, the black and white 

 grebe, and the little grebe, breed with us, and never migrate ; the 

 others visit us accidentally, and breed in Lapland. 



Web.footed Birds. 



23. Avoset. Breed near Fossdike, in Lincolnshire, but quit 

 their quarters in winter. They are then shot in different parts of 

 the kingdom, which they visit, not regularly but accidentally. 



24. Auks and Guillemots. The great auk or penguin sometimes 

 breeds in St. Kilda. The auk, the guillemot, and puffin, inhabit 

 most of the maritime cliffs of Great Britain, in amazing numbers 

 during summer. The black guillemot breeds in the Bass Isle, and 

 in St. Kilda, and sometimes in Llandidno rocks. We are at a 

 loss for the breeding-place of the other species ; neither can we be 

 very certain of the winter residence of any of them, excepting of 

 the lesser guillemot and black-billed auk, which, during winter, 

 visit in vast flocks the Frith of Forth. 



25. Divers. These chiefly breed in the lakes of Sweden and 

 Lapland, and in some countries near the pole ; but some of the 

 red-throated divers, the northern and the imber, may breed in the 

 north of Scotland and its isles. 



26. Terns. Every species breeds here ; but leaves us in the 

 winter. 



