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been quite exceptional. In the autumn it occurs 

 both in the Braye Pond and on the coast in the 

 more sheltered parts. I have the skin of one killed 

 in the Braye Pond in November, 1876, which might 

 have been one of those bred there that year. 



Professor Ansted includes the Coot in his list, 

 but only marks it as occurring in Guernsey. There 

 is no specimen in the Museum. 



100. LITTLE BUSTARD. Otis tetrax, Linnaeus. 

 French, " Outarde canepetiere," " Poule de Car- 

 thage." The Little Bustard can only be considered 

 a very rare occasional visitant to the Channel 

 Islands, and very few instances of its occurrence 

 have come under my notice. The first was men- 

 tioned to me by Mr. MacCulloch, who wrote me 

 word that a Little Bustard was killed in Guernsey 

 in 1865, but unfortunately he gives no information 

 as to the time of the year. Another was shot by a 

 farmer in Guernsey early in March, 1866, and was 

 recorded by myself in the ' Zoologist ' for that year. 

 Mr. Couch also recorded one in the ' Zoologist ' for 

 1875, " as having been shot at the back of St. 

 Andrew's (very near the place where one was shot 

 fifteen years ago) on the 20th of November, 1874." 

 This bird is now in the possession of Mr. Le Mottee, 

 at whose house I saw it, and was informed that it 

 had been shot at a place called the Eperons, in 

 the parish of St. Andrew's, on the date above 



