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Knot {Canutus canutus). — An injured female was caught 

 in Salisbury on Feb. 27tli, 1906 {Zool., April, 1906). 



DuNLiN^ {Erolia a. alpina). — One was shot near the river 

 Ray on Jan. 24th, 1907 {W.A.<&; N.H., XXXV., p. 150). 



G-REY Phalakope [PJiolaro'pus fuUcaHus) . — Mr. Cambridge 

 Phillips tells me of one at Burytown Blunsden and another 

 at Holt (no dates). One Avas shot at the end of Sept., 1889, 

 at Collingbourne Du'cis {M.C.N. H.). Mr. Ward shot one at 

 Calstone (no date), and in the Devizes Museum are three (one 

 m full summer-plumage), shot near Downton (no date). 



[Red-necked Phalarope {Phalaropus Idbatus). — One 

 recorded from Marlborough in 1869 {Birds of Wiltshire, 

 p. 450) turns out to be a Grey Phalarope {M.C.N.H., 1904).]' 



Whimbrel {Numenius ph. phceopus). — One was caught 

 wounded on August 20th, 1877, and on May 15th, 1890, five 

 were seen and two shot on the Downs near Kennet 



{M.G.N.H.). 



Common Snipe {Gallinago g. gallinago). — Two nests were- 

 found near Marlborough 1909 {M.C.N. H. and Brit. B.. III., 

 p. 29), and Mr. Vaughan tells me it almost certainly nested 

 at Milton in 1913. 



Black Tern {Hydrochelidon n. nigra). — Mr. Cambridge 

 Phillips tells me of one at Chippenliam in 1858 ; a pair were 

 seen at Ramsbury Park on May 16th, 1901 {M.C.N.H.), 

 and several were seen at Amesbury m Aug., 1911. 



Great Black-backed G-tjll {Larus marinus). — I saw one 

 on the Downs above Alton Wliite Horse on April 23rd, 1910. 



KiTTiwAKE G-ull {Rissa t. tridactyla). — One was found 

 dead in Savernake on Feb. 5th, 1890, and a young one was 

 shot on the Canal Reservoir near Wolf all on July 17th, 1890 

 {M.C.N.H.). 



Common Guillemot {Uria t. troille). — The Blackmore 

 Museum has a specimen shot at Amesbury in 1888. 



Little Auk {Alle alle). — "Two, one about 1855" 

 {M.C.N. H.). One at Winterbourne during 1912 " wreck " 

 {Brit. B., VL, p. 69), and Mr. Rawlence tells me that one 

 was picked up in Grovely Wood on Dec. 11th, 1912. 



Puffin {Fratercula a. arctica). — Six or seven were seen 

 and one killed by wire, on Nov. 20th, 1893, after a three 

 days' gale from the north, at Codford St. Mary {W.A.daN.H.,. 

 XXXVIL, p. 185). 



