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Blackheaded Gi :ll. {Lartts ridi- 

 bundus, Lin.) 



KiTTiWAKE. {Lurus tridacti/lus, 

 Latli.) 



Common Gcll. {Larus canus, 

 Lin.) 



Lesser Blackbacked Gli.l. (La- 

 rus fttscus, Lin.) Used tbnncriy to 

 breed in the Freshwater Cliff's of the 

 Isle of Wi<rht. 



Great Blackbacked Glll. (^Larus 

 marinus, Lin.) 



Tho difficulty in the foregoing list has been to decide wliich species 

 to insert or omit. Many which I have left out, others, perliai)s, 

 would have given, will be found placed amongst my last catalogue of 

 stragglers. But before we take these, let me mention two birds of 

 double passage whicli visit the Forest. 



Ring-ousel. (Tardus torquatus, 

 Lin.) A few appear in tlic spring, but 

 the greater body in the autumn, when 

 tliey frequent the yews and mountain 

 ashes, being especially fond of the sweet 

 berries of the former. They will hide 

 and skulk, much as a blackbird does, in 

 the furae and brambles, and old thick 

 hedges on the borders of the Forest. 

 Mr. Rake sends me the following inter- 

 esting note: " An intelligent working 



man, somewhat, too, of an ornithologist, 

 told me that a few years since lie took 

 its nest with four or five eggs, near 

 Ringwood, having a distinct view of the 

 bird as she left the nest." 



The Dotterel. (CItaradrins mor- 

 inellus, Lin.) Little flocks of thcni 

 may be seen in the Forest in April, and 

 again in the autumn ; but they stay only 

 for a few days. 



These are the only two birds which I can satisfactorily class ac 

 being truly of double passage. The common sandpiper remains to breed, 

 whilst the gi-ey plover and the whimbrel are killed in the depth of 

 winter. The common redshank, which is generally placed in this 

 division, remains all the year, and the grcenshank is seen in tlie 

 summer, whilst the bar-tailed godwit appears too seldom to admit of 

 being classified in this section. We will therefore go on to the next 

 list, which includes all those birds that cannot be arranged in the fore- 

 going divisions, with the rare stragglers which are driven here by 

 accident, or only appear at uncertain intervals. 



Golden Eagle. (Falco chrysaetos, 

 Lin.) The last seen was kiiliil, accord- 

 ing to ]\Ir. Ilart, abtnit twenty years ago, 

 at the mouth of Cliristcliuich harbour. 



Spotted Eagle. (Falco navius, 

 Gmel.) A fine male s])ecimcii was shot, 

 Dec. 28th, 1861, by a keeper of Lord 

 Normanton's, in the plantations near 

 Sonierley. The bird bad been noticed 

 for some days i)reviously hovering over 

 the Forest. Mr. Rake, who saw it in 



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the flesh, tells nie that the wings 

 measured six feet from tip to ti]). and 

 its weight Mas exactly eight jjounds. 



White-tailed Eagi.e. ( FuUo albi- 

 cilla, Gmel.) Sec Chapter XXII., 

 ]i. ac.o. 



(Jsi-REY. (Falco liuliaitus, Lin.) 

 Might almost be cla.ssed as a ie;:ular 

 visitor in the aiitmnn jilung the (-oast. 



Goshawk. ( Falcti /xilnwtiariiis.LiA.) 

 Sometimes u stray birtl is killed. 



