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Goosander.—A small flock of these birds flew by the steamer, 
as we were going through the Little Russel, on our passage home, 
on the 16th. 
Redbreasted Merganser.—I shot one, a hen bird, out of a flock 
of five which flew by me as I was scrambling over the wild rocks 
between Cobo and the Vale Church, on the 8th—a wild stormy day, 
with occasional gleams of sunshine; most beautiful these five 
birds looked as they flew by, their glossy buff breasts glistening in 
the sun and backed by a dark cloud. 
Grebes.—I saw one fresh-killed little grebe in the market, and 
Couch had in his shop skins of the rednecked, Sclavonian and 
eared grebe, the two latter in full plumage, but the skins had been 
left about in his shop till they were in the last stage of dissolution ; 
otherwise I should have bought them. 
Great Northern and Redthroated Divers——There were several 
skins of both these birds in Couch’s shop, and I believe they 
are by no means uncommon in the islands duriug the winter, 
though I did not see either any fresh-killed specimens or any live 
birds, even from the steamer on our return, which I expected to. 
Common Tern.—One at Couch’s, killed about the same time as 
the ruff and the little stint mentioned before. This list, with the 
68 species mentioned by me inthe ‘Zoologist’ for 1866, the Ameri- 
can bittern in the ‘Zoologist’ for 1871, and a few species enumerated 
by Mr. Harvie Brown in the ‘Zoologist’ for 1869, makes up about 
a hundred species: I know it is far less than the number contained 
in Professor Ansted’s list, but I do not think his list reliable, 
being founded on the specimens in the Museum, many of which, 
for the reason given in my former note, I do not consider 
proved to have been killed in the islands. A resident orni- 
thologist might, I have no doubt, in a year or two easily 
double this list, and might give us some very interesting notes, not 
only on the rarer occurrences, but also on the arrival and departure 
of migrants; but the neglected state of the Museum alone would 
show that there is at present no one living in the island who takes 
any great amount of interest in the subject. On my former visit I 
was much struck with the state into which the Museum had been 
allowed to fall; but now continued neglect, and the consequent 
moth and natural decay, have done their work so thoroughly 
that many of the best specimens are not recognizable: even 
Mr. Blake-Knox would not be able to identify many of his 
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