214 THE BIRDS or CORlSrWAIiL. 



Coot ; resident, but somewhat scarce ; fi-equents mud-banks 

 covered with dense reedbeds, and the reedy margins of open 

 pools ; many immigrants appear at times in autumn and winter ; 

 common in winter in Scilly ; nests in suitable localities from 

 south Sweden to the Mediterranean ; in winter there is on the 

 continent a strongly marked south and south-west migration from 

 the basin of the Baltic and northern Germany. 



Crane ; a casual visitor ; breeds in the European morasses 

 fi'om the south of Norway to the Mediterranean, and winters in 

 northern Africa ; a solitary specimen frequented the banks of the 

 Tamar for some time in the autumn of 1826, and was ultimately 

 shot on the Devonshire side of the river ; one shot at Tresco, 

 Scilly, in the spring of 1881. 



Great Bustard ; a casual winter visitor, usually resident on 

 the plains of Germany and the Danube, and not unfrequent in 

 Spain ; represented in Cornwall by at least three specimens, one 

 from Goonhilly Downs in 1843, one from St. Austell in 1854, and 

 a third from Looe in Dec, 1879. 



Little Bustard ; a casual visitor of which about twenty 

 have been recorded for the county chiefly from the west, though 

 one has been obtained at Padstow and another near Looe ; 

 probably once seen in Scilly ; latest county record St. Mawes, 

 1893 ; conunon but local on the continent. 



Stone Curlew ; a winter visitor in small numbers to the 

 west of the county, once recorded in Scilly ; in the rest of England 

 a summer migrant ; Cornwall and south Devon seem to be on the 

 northern limit of its winter habitat. 



Collared Pratincole ; an accidental visitor from the south 

 of Europe, where it is a summer migrant ; one shot at Truro in 

 September, 1811, and one near the Lizard on June 9th, 1874. 



Cream-coloured Courser ; an accidental visitor, breeding 

 in Northern Africa ; a rare straggler to central Europe ; a single 

 specimen shot at Mawgan near St. Columb in December, 1884. 



Dotterel ; a rare casual visitor to the open moors on the 

 south coast ; last records for the county, two killed at the Lizard 

 lighthouse, April, 1880, a trip seen and one bird shot at Pen- 

 tuan eai4y in May, 1891 ; breeds sparingly in the Lake district 



