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Cecil Smith, “‘even as a stranger.” But Mr. Gallienne, in his 
notes to Professor Ansted’s list, says, speaking of Guernsey, 
“The Rook has tried two or three times to colonise, but in vain, 
having been destroyed or frightened away.” Mr. MacCulloch 
has observed that they sometimes visit Guernsey in large flocks 
in severe winters. 
Kingfishers, adapting their habits to circumstances, “‘ breed in 
holes in the rocks all around the island” (p. 102). Mr. Cecil 
Smith thinks the number of these birds is somewhat augmented 
in autumn by migrants, since he has seen more specimens in the 
birdstuffers’ shops at that time of year than at any other. This, 
however, may perhaps be accounted for, to some extent, by its 
being protected during summer and early autumn by the local 
Sea Birds Preservation Act, wherein the Martin pecheur appears 
os one of the Oiseaux de Mer. 
The Thick-knee, or Stone Curlew, is said to be by no means 
uncommon in winter—a fact for which ornithologists would be 
more or less prepared from Mr. Rodd’s observations of its habits 
in Cornwall, who states that it is never seen in the Lizard and 
Land’s End districts except in winter; and the only way to 
account for this deviation is to presume that a portion of the 
migratory party, in their southern flight in the autumn, hold a 
northern limit just reaching the Land’s End and the Lizard lands 
(the most southern in the British Isles), the corresponding 
northern migration in the spring just taking the whole number. 
above the southern latitudes of the extreme western counties. 
The Kentish Plover Mr. Cecil Smith regards as a summer 
visitant to the islands, and he has found their nests after a long 
search on the sandy shores of Grand Havre and L’Ancresse Bay, 
Guernsey, as well as on the shell beach in Herm. He believes 
that they nest also in Alderney, where he has seen them during 
the breeding season. 
The Turnstone is said to be resident throughout the year, its 
numbers being augmented in autumn by the arrival of migrants. 
The author has reason to believe that a few pairs even breed in 
some of the smaller rocky islands, where he has seen them in pairs 
during the month of June. 
On the subject of sea-gulls, as might be expected, he has a 
good deal to say; but none of the Skuas are represented in his 
list. This is somewhat singular, since two species of these 
