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THE FAUNISTIC POSITIOX OF SPECIES. 



White-tailed Eagle (B. ?). 

 Kite (G, B. ?). 

 Honey-Buzzard (7). 

 Osprey (20, B.P). 

 Little Bittern (11, B.?). 

 Nitrlit-Herou (13, B.). 

 White Stork (4). 

 Spoonbill (10). 

 Grey Lag Goose (8). 

 Bean-Goose. 

 Barnacle Goose. 

 "Whooper Swan. 

 Bewick's Swan. 

 Gadwall (10). 

 Eider Duck (12). 

 Velvet Scoter (10). 

 Little Crake (7). 

 Crane (2). 



fh-eat liustard (13 or 14). 

 Little Bustard (10), 

 Stone-Curlew. 

 Kentish Plover (2). 

 Dotterel. 



Avocet (27). 



Red-necked Phalarope (2). 

 Great Snipe (20). 

 Temmiuck's Stint (3). 

 Paiff. 



Wood-Sandpiper (7). 

 Spotted Redshank (13). 

 Black-tailed Godwit. 

 Little Tern. 

 Sandwich Tern. 

 Glaucous Gull. 

 Iceland Gull. 

 Little Gull. 

 Common Skua. 

 Butfun's Skua (21). 

 Leach's Petrel. 

 Sooty Shearwater (2). 

 Fulmar (6). 

 Black-tliroated Diver. 

 Red-necked Grebe. 

 Eared Grebe. 

 Black Guillemot (7). 

 Little Auk (25 or 30). 



The Lesser Whitethroat is xery rare, l)ut has been reported as 

 breeding in both South and North Devon^ most probably erro- 

 neously. The Keed-Warbler has been observed at Slapton Ley, 

 but none have been seen for the last twenty years anywhere in the 

 county. The Bearded Titmouse has also been seen at Slapton and 

 in North Devon. It formerly bred in Devon, and, according to 

 Mr. Howard Saunders, does so still. The Blue-headed Wagtail has 

 occurred about seven times in the south-western part of the county. 

 No Wax wings have been seen in Devon since the Avinter of 1849- 

 50. The Golden Oriole, Crossbill, Hooded Crow, jNIarsh-Harrier, 

 Hen-Harrier, and ]\Iontagu's Harrier are all believed to have 

 bred within the limits of the county. All the Harriers are now 

 more or less scarce, though formerly numerous. Montagues 

 Harrier was once a regular summer migrant. The Osprey was 

 frequently met with on our estuaries, and formerly bred both 

 on the south coast and Lundy Island. The White-tailed Eagle 

 and the Kite also formerly bred. The Tree-Sparrow finds 

 its western, and the Twite its southern limit in this county, as they 



