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APPENDIX I. 



List of species which have been recorded as having been 

 found in the British Islands, but on evidence vs-hich the 

 Committee do not regard as entirely satisfactory. 



Order PASSERIFORMES, 

 Family CORVID^. 



Pyrrhocorax graculus. Alpine Chough. 



Corvus graculus Linnceus, Syst. Nat. 12th ed. i. 1766, 

 p. 158 : Switzerland. 



Pyrrhocorax alpinus Vieill. ; Sharpe, Gat. Birds B. M. iii. 1877, 

 p. 148 ; Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 232. 



One taken near Banbnry, Oxfordshire, April 1881, had 

 probably escaped from captivity. 



The Alpine Chough is found throughout the mountains 

 of southern and central Europe and Asia from Spain to the 

 Himalaya. 



Family EULABETIDiE. 



Gracula religiosa. Southern Wattled Starling. 



Gracula religiosa Linnmis, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 108: 



Asia. 



Mainatus religiosus (^Linn.') ; Sharpe, Gat. Birds B. M. xiii. 



1890, p. 99. 

 Gracula religiosa Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 226. 



This common cage-bird has occasionally been captured at 

 large in the British Islands. It inhabits southern India and 

 Ceylon. 



