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ON THE MORE IMPORTANT ADDITIONS TO OUR 

 KNOWLEDGE OF BRITISH BIRDS SINCE 1899.^ 



BY 



H. F. WITHERBY and N. F. TICEHURST. 



Part X. 

 (Continued from Vol. T., page 850.) 



FLAMINGO Phoenicopterus roseus Pall. S. page 395. 



[On November 22nd, 1902, a Flamingo Avas shot on the 

 Wash ; on November 5th, 1904, another was seen in Norfolk ; 

 and in August, 1906, three were shot in the same county. In 

 December, 1904, one was killed in Kent ; but so many have 

 been turned out at Woburn with only cut wings (c/. Vol. L, p. 

 91), and probably at other places, that we cannot regard these 

 as genuine migrants. 



We must here record our emphatic opinion that it is con- 

 trary to the interests of scientific ornithology to turn out birds 

 of species which visit us or may be likely to visit us as 

 genuine migrants.] 



GREY LAG-GOOSE Anser cinereus Meyer. S. page 397. 



Scotland. — A young bird still unable to fly was obtained 

 in the Tay area in the autumn of 1906, and the bird was 

 considered to have been bred in the district (T. G. Laidlaw, Ann. 

 Scot. Nat. Hist., 1906, p. 237). Mr. Harvie-Brown records a 

 decided increase in the numbers of this species in many parts 

 of Scotland, and a distinct expansion of range to certain new 

 haunts {Fauna N. W. Highlands and Skye, p. 221). 



A bird received from Limerick November 23rd, 1901, has 

 been assigned by Mr. F. Coburn (c/. Bull. B.O.C., XII., p. 80, 

 and Zool., 1903, p. 46) to the supposed distinct eastern form 

 ^^hich was separated by Hodgson under the name of Anser 

 rubrirostris. Mons. S. Alpheraky, who examined a very 



* As was explained in the first instalment of these articles {vide 

 British Birds, Vol. I., p. 52), we refer here only to those records and 

 observations which are additions to the Second Edition (1899) of 

 Saunders' " Illustrated Manual of British Birds." It must also be 

 pointed out that nothing which has already appeared in any part of 

 this magazine is included in these articles, so that they must be read 

 in conjunction with the magazine so far as published, as well as with 

 Saunders' "Manual," 



