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redwing, thrush, blackbird, ring ouzel, goldcrest (on one occasion 

 only), bearded tit, meadow and rock pipits, sky lark ; snow, common, 

 yellow and blackheaded buntings ; mountain finch, chaffinch, tree 

 and common sparrows, common and mountain linnets, greenfinch, 

 starling, Cornish chough, common and hooded crows, raven, rook, 

 jackdaw, jay, magpie; black, green and greater spotted wood- 

 peckers, cuckoo, kingfisher, ring dove, stock dove, rock dove, 

 capercaillie (and hybrids between capercaillie and black cock), 

 black grouse, red grouse, ptarmigan, pheasants (in great variety, 

 some pure white), common and redlegged partridges, Virginian 

 colin, quail; great, golden, gray, ringed, lapwing and dotterel 

 plovers; turnstone, sandcrling, oyslercatcher, common and purple 

 herons, bittern, while stork, spoonbill, curlew, whimbrel, spotted 

 and common redshanks ; green, common and wood sandpipers 

 (many of the latter, in full summer plumage, are to be found in 

 spring among the ruffs)-, greenshank, avocet; blacktailed and 

 bartailed godwits, ruff", woodcock ; great, common and jack 

 snipes; knot, purple sandpiper, curlew sandpiper, dunlin, coot, 

 moorhen, land rail, spotted crake, water rail; graylag, bean, pink- 

 footed, whitefronted, bernicle, brent, Canada and Egyptian geese ; 

 hooper and Bewick's swans (which have been particularly numerous 

 during the past winter), shieldrake, shoveller, wild duck, gad wall, 

 pintail, garganey, teal, wigcon, eider duck, king duck, velvet and 

 common scoters, redcrested whistling duck {FuUgula rujina), 

 pochard, Nyroca pochard, tufted duck (and hybrid between Nyroca 

 and tufted duck), scaup and longtailed ducks (the latter with the 

 two middle tail-feathers sometimes exceeding the others by seven 

 inches), goldeneye, smew, redbreasted merganser, goosander ; great 

 crested, rednecked, horned, eared and little grebes ; great northern, 

 blackthroated and redlhroated divers ; ringed, common and black 

 guillemots; puffin, razorbill, shag, cormorant, gaunet; common, 

 arctic, lesser and black terns; blackheaded, kittiwake, common, 

 lesser blackbacked, herring, great blackbacked, glaucous and Ice- 

 land gulls; great, pomarine and Richardson's skuas; Manx shear- 

 water; forktailed and storm petrels. 



I have onjy mentioned the diff'erent species that have come 

 under my own observation ; but of course many other rarities are 

 occasionally to be found. Strange to say, I have never met with 

 the night heron or gray phalarope in the markets, but Mr. J. H. 

 Gurney did, not long since. Immense quantities of pinnated, 



