84 BIRDS OF GUERNSEY. 



from the 1st to the 16th of November. I think it 

 not at all improbable that many of these flocks 

 only roosted out of the Island and returned, as 

 even here in Somerset they collect in large flocks 

 before going to roost, and fly long distances, some- 

 times quite over the Quantock Hills, to some 

 favourite roosting-place they have selected, and 

 return in the morning, and the distance would in 

 many places be nearly as great. These flocks of 

 Starlings seem to have continued in the Island 

 quite into the winter, as Miss Carey notes, in the 

 ' Zoologist ' for 1872, seeing a flock in the field 

 before the house at Candie close to the town as late 

 as the 6th of December, 1871. At the same time 

 that there were so many in Guernsey, Starlings 

 were reported as unusually numerous in Alderney, 

 but how long the migratory flocks remained there I 

 have not been able to ascertain. 



The Starling is included in Professor Ansted's 

 list, but marked as only occurring in Guernsey and 

 Sark. There are two specimens in the Museum and 

 some eggs. 



74. CHOUGH. Pyrrhocorax graculiis, Linnaeus. 

 French, " Crave." The Chough is a common resi- 

 dent in Guernsey, breeding amongst the high rocks 

 on the south and east part of the Island, and in 

 the autumn and winter spreading over the cultivated 



