322 Rev. F. C. K. Jourdain on the 



199. Gallinago media (Lath.), Great Snipe. 

 Whitehead shot one of three met with on March 25. 



200. Gallinago gallinago (L.). Common Snipe. 

 Local name : Beccazino. 



A common winter visitor, but most numerous at the 

 periods of double passage, in November and March. The 

 latest bird was noted on April 30 by Whitehead. 



20L Gallinago gallinula (L.). Jack Snipe. 



A winter visitor ; according to Whitehead the predomi- 

 nating species on the east coast and common in February. 

 Last seen on March 27. 



202. Scolopax rusticula L. Woodcock. 

 Local names : Beccaze ; Beccaccia (Giglioli). 



A common winter visitor : according to Wharton not at 

 all common on the west coast, but Whitehead found it 

 plentiful from December to January, though only small 

 bags could be obtained owing to the dense macchia, on 

 the east side of the island. Noted in the Ajaccio market 

 by Backhouse and Parrot. 



203. Hydrochelidon leucoptera (Temm.). White- 

 winged Black Tern. 



Whitehead saw two on May 28 in very stormy weather, 

 hawking for dragon-flies over a rushy pond. Apparently this 

 is the only species of Marsh-Tern which has been recorded 

 from the island. 



201. Sterna caspia Pall, Caspian Tern. 



Although not recorded of recent years from the Straits 

 of Bonifacio, this species is said to have bred there formerly. 

 Purazzo states that it nested on Maddalena in 1837, and 

 Arrigoni in his ' Manuale ' (p, 789) speaks of it as breeding 

 at various points on the west coast of Sardinia. Probably, 

 as in other places, the colonies have been exterminated by 

 the tishermen. 



