THE BIRDS OF CORNWALL. 



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Among the Accidental Visitors to the county, there are no 

 less than eighteen American species : — 



Eed-winged. Starling. American Stint. 



Yellow-billed Cuckoo. 

 Hawk Owl. 

 Little Green Heron. 

 American Bittern. 

 Surf Scoter. 

 Killdeer Plover. 

 Pectoral Sandpiper. 

 Bonaparte's Sandpiper. 



BuiJ-Lreasted Sandpiper. 

 Bartram's Sandpij^er. 

 Solitary' Sandpiper. 

 Yellow Shank. 

 Ped-breasted Snipe. 

 Escjuimaux Curlew 

 Bonaparte's Gull. 

 Ivory Gull. 



Apart from introduced species there are sixteen birds that 

 have occurred in Devonshire and not in Cornwall : — 



Nightingale. 

 Ped-spotted Bluethroat. 

 Black-headed Warbler. 

 Pufous Warbler. 

 Alpine Accentor. 

 Crested Tit 

 Water Pipit. 

 Serin. 



White-winged Crossbill ? 

 Nutcracker. 

 Buff-backed Heron. 

 Ped-breasted Goose. 

 American Green-winged Teal. 

 White- eyed Duck. 

 Caspian Tern. 

 Great Black-headed Gull. 

 Of these the Nightingale is a summer migrant, the Crested 

 Tit a casual, and all the others accidental visitors. The little 

 Egret has occurred in Devonshire and may have to be added to 

 the above list. 



Twenty-three species have occurred in Cornwall that have 

 not as yet been found in Devon : — 



Ashy-headed Wagtail. Collared PratiuQole. 



Tawny Pipit. Baillon's Crake. 



Ped-breasted Flycatcher. Little Pinged Plover. 



Two-barred Crossbill ? 

 Ortolan Bunting. 

 Ped-winged Starling. 

 Short-toed Lark. 

 Scop's Owl. 

 Spotted Eagle. 

 Iceland Falcon. 

 Lesser Kestrel. 

 Little Green Heron. 



Killdeer Plover. 

 Bartram's Sandpiper. 

 Solitary Sandpiper. 

 Yellowshank. 

 Esquimaux Curlew. 

 Poseate Tern. 

 Bonaparte's Gull. 

 Briinnich's Guillemot, 



