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Great Syire.—Larve of Tipule or congenerous flies (Yarrell). 
Snipr.—Insects, worms, and Mollusca (Yarrell). Earthworms, 
insects, and small Mollusca (Stevenson). 
Jack Snrpr.—Small beetles (Stevenson). Small white larvee 
and seeds (Yarrell), and worms (Harting). 
CurLEw SANDPIPER.—Sandhoppers, insects, worms, and small 
Crustacea, such as shrimps (Yarrell). Coleopterous insects and 
small worms (Stevenson). 
Knor.—Aquatic insects and bivalves (Yarrell). Of a number 
of Knots’ stomachs examined during the British Polar Expedition 
of 1875-6 only one contained any food; this consisted of two 
caterpillars of Dasychira granlandica, Wocke, one bee, and pieces 
of an Alga, Gleocapsa magna, Klr. (H. C. Hart). 
Burr-BREASTED SANDPIPER.—Land and marine insects, par- 
ticularly grasshoppers (Yarrell). 
Lirtte Srint.— Mollusca, aquatic insects, worms, small 
Crustacea (Yarrell), Flies (Stevenson). Small beetles (Harting). 
Tremminck’s Stinr.—Insects and worms (Yarrell). 
PECTORAL SANDPIPER.—Small Coleoptera, larvee, Ulva latissima, 
and some species of Fucus (Yarrell). Insects (Stevenson). 
Dunuin.—Minute Coleoptera (Stevenson). Aquatic insects, 
worms, Mollusca, and small thin-skinned Crustacea (Yarrell). 
PurpLe SANppPrpeR.—Marine insects, &c. (Yarrell). Small 
Mollusca, shrimps, and sandhoppers. : 
Grey PHALAROPE.—Small flies and beetles (Stevenson). 
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE.—F lies (Stevenson). One which was 
caught and brought to me was so tame that it swam about in a 
small basin of water, and ate many small flies which I dropped on 
the water as fast as I could supply them, and whilst my hand was 
within a few inches of the bird (F. N.) 
Bewick’s Swan.—The gizzard of one shot in Norfolk in 
February, 1880, contained silt, pond-grass, water insects’ legs, 
and the tail of a small fish (J. H. Gurney, Jun.) 
Scaup and Common Scorer.— Marine Mollusca of various 
species, the gizzards being sometimes crammed with fragments of 
the shells (Harting). 
Common Trern.— Small fish, shrimps and sandhoppers, moths, 
and craneflies ‘ Harting). 
Arctic 'Trrn.—The chief food of those examined during the 
British Polar Expedition of 1875-6 was “green caterpillars, 
