104 BIRDS OF GUERNSEY. 



door which had been shot in that Island by 

 himself. 



Professor Ansted includes the Nightjar in his list, 

 but only marks it as occurring in Guernsey and 

 Sark. There are two specimens, a male and female, 

 in the Museum, but no date as to time of their 

 occurrence. 



87. SWIFT. Cypselus apus, Linnaeus. French, 

 " Martinet de Muraille." The Swift is a tolerably 

 numerous summer visitant to all the Islands, but I 

 think most numerous in Sark, where hundreds of 

 these birds may be seen flying about the Coupee, 

 amongst the rocks of which place and Little Sark 

 they breed in considerable numbers. Mr. Mac- 

 Culloch and Mr. Gallienne appear to think the 

 Swift rare in Guernsey, as Mr Gallienne says in his 

 remarks on Professor Ansted's list, " The swift 

 appears here (Guernsey) in very small numbers, 

 but is abundant in Sark;" and Mr. MacCulloch 

 writes me word, " I consider the Swift very rare in 

 Guernsey." I certainly cannot quite agree with this, 

 as I have found them by no means uncommon, 

 though certainly rather locally distributed in Guern- 

 sey. One afternoon this summer (1878) Mr. Howard 

 Saunders and I counted forty within sight at one 

 time about the Gull Cliff, near the old deserted 

 house now known as Victor Hugo's house, as he 

 has immortalised it by describing it in his 

 ' Travailleurs de la Mer.' The Swifts use this and 



