THE ZooLocist—FEBRuUARY, 1872. 2923 
I saw the two birds, as well as the first, was much more suited to 
the wheatear than to the redstart—barren sheep-walks, with wild 
rocks and stone walls close to the shore ; no bushes, orchards, 
hedges or gardens, which one is apt to associate with one’s old 
summer friend. 
Starlings.—Exceedingly numerous, and in the evening large 
flocks of them might be seen flying in all directions in search of 
convenient roosting-places; whether they always found thesein the 
Island I could not be sure, but a few of the flocks appeared to 
leave, flying out to sea, as far as I could follow them with my 
glass, in the direction of Jersey and the French coast: I think it 
not at all improbable that they went to one of those places, for 
even here, where there is certainly no lack of the bestaccommodation, 
they fly long distances in the evening, and about sunset flock after 
flock may be seen flying by to their roosting-places, where they 
assemble in almost incredible numbers. These birds, though the 
large numbers appear to be only migrants, must still be considered 
as partially resident, for, although I did not see any of them myself 
during my visit in the summer of 1866, I have seen several of their 
eggs in collections which were taken in the island. In Alderney I 
heard also that they were very numerous, more so than they had 
been for many years. 
Norfolk Plover.—I saw one of these birds hanging up in the 
market; it was so fresh and apparently so recently killed—I 
_ should think that morning—that in all probability it was killed in 
Guernsey, though I could not ascertain the fact quite for certain. 
There was also a specimen in Couch’s shop which had been shot 
in the island. 
Golden Plover.—There were two or three tolerably large flocks 
of these birds about, but they were very wild, so much so that I 
only succeeded in bagging one; two others which I shot un- 
fortunately fell into the sea, and were carried out by the tide 
before I could get to them. TI always found the golden plover by 
the sea, amongst hard rocks and loose rough shingle, which would 
afford little or no food; so they had probably selected these places not 
as feeding-grounds, but as affording some refuge from the incessant 
gunning which was going on inland; the gunners, however, do not 
appear to have been very successful with the golden plover, as I 
saw very few in the market. 
Peewits.—I1 only saw one small flock of these birds: they were 
