344 BRITISH SPECIES UNKNOWN AS IRISH. 



The following species of the order Grallatores have occurred in 

 Great Britain and not in Ireland : — 



1. Cream-coloured Courser, Cursorius Isabellinus,Meyev. 



2. Little Ringed Plover, Charadrius minor, Meyer. 



3. Great White Heron, Ardea alba, Liim. 



4. Buff-backed, or Little White Heron, „ russata, Temm. 



5. Black Stork, Ciconia nigra, Linn. 



6. Spotted Sandpiper, Totanus macularius, Linn, (sp.) 



7. Brown or Grey Snipe, Scolopax grisea, Gmel. 



8. Pectoral Sandpiper, Tringa pectoralis, Bonap. 



9. Little Crake or Olivaceous Gallinule, Crex pusilla, Gmel. (sp.) 



10. Red-necked Phalarope, Phalaropus hyperboreus, Liim. (sp.) 



The 1st — Cursorius Isabellinus — is a native of Africa, but 

 visits the north of that continent only in summer. It is in- 

 cluded in the British fauna from four individuals having been 

 obtained in England, and is very rarely observed in any country 

 north of the Mediterranean (Yarr.). 



The 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5 th come much under the same cate- 

 gory. But one individual of the Charadrius minor (procured 

 at Shoreham in Sussex) is positively recorded as obtained in Eng- 

 land. The British Islands lie too far west to be often visited by 

 the species. Though an occasional summer migrant to Sweden, 

 the countries southward of the Baltic Sea are those particularly 

 frequented by it. In England, six, and in Scotland, one, of the 

 Ardea alba have been killed. This bird appears to be an oc- 

 casional visitant only to the countries throughout the more western 

 half of Europe in any latitude : it is more frequent eastward. A 

 single Ardea russata, procured in Devonshire so long ago as 

 1807, is on record as British. The species is chiefly met with in 

 the more southern portions of the east of Europe, and prevails 

 thence eastward (in India commonly) over Asia. Eour of the 

 Ciconia nigra have been obtained in England, — two of them in the 

 west; — in Somersetshire and Devonshire. This bird is found 

 especially in the more eastern half of Europe, or eastward of 



