186 THE BIRDS OF CORNWALL. 



Of these the Roseate Tern formerly bred in Cornwall, 



Baillon's Crake is a casual ; the others are accidental visitors. 



N.B. — The two Crossbills marked ? may be the same sjiecies. 



TENTATIVE LIST OF CORNISH BIRDS. 



Mistle Thrush ; resident, common and generally distribu- 

 ted ; immigrant Hocks occasionally seen in autumn and winter ; 

 a winter visitor to Scilly ; nests throughout western and central 

 Europe. 



Song Thrush ; resident, common and generally distributed ; 

 many birds arrive in Se23tember ; migratory movements in winter 

 often considerable, and at times very few seem to be left in the 

 county ; nests throughout northern and central Europe. 



Redwing ; a winter visitor, breeding in northern Europe ; 

 usually common and generally distributed on higher ground 

 throughout the county, but numbers and distribution dej)end 

 in great measure upon the severity of the weather.; earliest 

 record for Cornwall September 24th, but arrives in flocks usually 

 from the middle of October onwards ; departs middle or end of 

 March, latest record May 1 6tli ; gregarious and somewhat 

 sedentary. 



Fieldfare ; a winter visitor breeding in northern Europe ; 

 usually common and generally distributed, but variable, and in 

 some years comparatively scarce, especially in the north-east of 

 the county; earliest record October 1st, latest April 25th; tho 

 immigrant flocks, often very large, ai:)pear about the end of 

 October, and the birds generally leave about the end of March ; 

 gregarious but nomadic. 



White's Thrush ; an accidental visitor from Asia ; two 

 Cornish specimens have been obtained, one at Probus in 1874, 

 and one at Scilly in December, 1886. 



Blackbird ; resident, abundant and generally distributed ; 

 evidently increasing ; breeds from Norway southwards into 

 Northern Africa and Asia Minor. 



Ring Ouzel ; a su.mmer migrant, wintering in northern 

 Africa ; breeds on the Bodmin Moors ; one nest found last year 

 near Morwenstowe ; has been seen near Falmouth on the 14th 



