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DUCK TRIBE (5). Scaup. Golden-eye. Long-tailed duck. 



Velvet scoter. Smew. 

 GOOSE TRIBE (5). Bean goose. Berwick goose. Brent 



goose. White-fronted goose. Pink-footed goose. 

 SWAN TRIBE (2). Bewick's swan. Whooper. 

 PLOVER TRIBE (16). Turnstone. Grey plover. Purple 



sandpiper. Green sandpiper. Wood sandpiper. Cur- 

 lew sandpiper. Dusky or spotted redshank. Avocet. 



Black-tailed godwit. Bar-tailed godwit. Jack snipe. 



Great or solitary snipe. Sanderling. Little stint. 



Knot. Grey phalarope. 

 GULL TRIBE (5). Little gull. Iceland gull. Glaucous 



gull. Pomatorhine skua. Bouffon's or long-tailed 



skua. 



PETREL TRIBE (2). Sooty shearwater. Great shearwater. 

 DIVER TRIBE (5). Little auk or rotche. Great Northern 



diver. Red-necked grebe. Black-necked grebe. 



Eared or Slavonian grebe. 



I must confess that I have not seen any of 

 these fifty-five out of my study window, but 

 others may be more fortunate. I wish that 

 I had space to add my friend's other lists of 

 the 441 British birds (roughly, 267 "land" 

 and 174 " water " birds), of whom 185 species 

 breed in this country, the remainder elsewhere. 

 Out of the whole 441 only six have so far 

 accepted my standing invitation to visit the 

 hedge outside ; I suppose because I have not 

 provided sufficiently varied fare, only coco- 

 nuts cut in half, meat-bones (hanging), cold 

 mutton-fat or lard (smeared inside the coconut 



