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Rock Pipit ; resident ; essentially a shore bird, common 

 along oiir rocky coasts ; resident in Scilly ; tlie British form seems 

 to he confined on the continent to the northern and western shores 

 of France. 



Golden Oriole ; an annual passing- visitor in spring to West 

 Cornwall and Scilly, usually apjDearing in April ; a common 

 summer bird in Europe, except the extreme north, its winter 

 migrations extending far south into Africa. 



Great Grey Shrike ; a rare casual winter visitor, taken in 

 the county three times, including once at Gweek, Helston, aboiit 

 thirty years ago, and once at Bodmin, Nov. 26th, 1898; breeds 

 in central Europe, and is a fairly fi-equent and regular winter 

 visitor in the east of England. 



Lesser Grey Shrike ; a very rare accidental visitor, a 

 single specimen having been j)rocured at Scilly early in Novem- 

 ber, 1851 ; wintering in South Afi'ica, it is a regular summer visi- 

 tor to south and central Europe. 



Red-backed Shrike ; a comparatively scarce summer 

 migrant in the west and north of the county, but commoner in the 

 north-east ; a clutch of four eggs unfortunately taken near 

 Marazion about the end of May, 1899 ; a nest with six eggs 

 found near Killiow, Truro, early in June, 1902 ; a single speci- 

 men seen at St. Mary, Scilly, in Sept., 1870 ; breeds throughout 

 central Europe, and extends its winter migration to Natal and 

 the Cape. 



Wood Ghat ; an accidental visitor to Scilly, once in Sept., 

 1840, and again in the autumn of 1849, when several specimens 

 were obtained ; a rare and irregular visitor to England, though 

 common enough in the breeding season on the opposite shores of 

 the continent. 



Waxwin^ ; a casual winter visitor, erratic in its appearance, 

 and very variable in its numbers ; many specimens taken in 

 Cornwall in the winter of 1849-50, since which date it does not 

 seem to have occurred in the county ; breeds in the Arctic regions 

 within the limits of tree growth, and in winter wanders as far 

 south as Provence and northern Italy. 



Spotted Flycatcher ; one of our latest summer migrants, 

 appearing about the middle of May, and leaving us in August 



