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The Bustard, Little, and Buffed Bustards are 

 rare, as is also the Cream-coloured Courser which 

 the natives call the English Plover, but the Thick 

 Knee may be almost considered resident. The Golden 

 Plover, Dotterel, Ringed, Little Kinged, and Grey 

 Plovers are common, and visit the islands regularly, 

 but the Kentish, White-tailed, Asiatic, Golden, and 

 Spur-winged Plovers are more or less rare. The 

 Oyster Catcher is only an accidental visitor, but the 

 Collared Pratincole and the Lapwing arrive and 

 depart year by year. 



Common and Numidian Cranes are sometimes 

 seen, and Common, Purple, White, Squacco, and 

 Buff-backed Herons, together with Egrets, pass and 

 repass, as do also the Bittern, Little Bittern, and 

 Night Heron. White and Black Storks, and the 

 Spoonbill are alike rare, but the Glossy Ibis, Cur- 

 lew, Whimbrel and Slender-billed Curlew, are re- 

 gularly seen and shot during the spring and autumn. 

 The Black-tailed and Bar-tailed Godwits are not 

 common, but the Greenshank, Redshank, and Spot- 

 ted Redshank are more so. 



Sandpipers are often observed. We may men- 

 tion the Marsh, Wood, Green, Common, Bartram'"s, 

 and Curlew varieties, together with the Sanderling, 

 which last occasionally finds its way to our shores. 

 Ruffs, Great, Common, and Jack Snipe, as well as 

 Woodcocks are fairly abundant at the periods of 

 migration. The Knot is rare, but the Dunlin an.4 



