296 RAMBLES OF A NATURALIST. 
Rock MARTIN, Cotyle rupestris (Scop.). 
Is the species alluded to in the fifteenth letter of. the 
White-Marsham correspondence (Norw. Nat. Soc., Trans. ii, 
181). 
BARBARY PARTRIDGE, Caccabis petrosa (Gm.). 
Bought one in the market with its throat cut, indicative 
of its Moorish origin, 
STONE CURLEW, Gdicnemus crepitans, Tem, 
One in the market. As it was with the Partridges, it 
may have come from Africa also, 
CurLEW, Numenius arquata (Linn.), 
I saw two which a man had shot, 
JACK SNIPE, Lymunocryptes gallinula (Linn.), 
RinG DOTTEREL, &gialitis hiaticula (Linn.). 
KENTISH PLOVER, 4¢gialitis cantiana (Lath.). 
I found that I could distinguish these from the Ring 
Dotterels by their speed in running, and greater disinclina- 
tion to take wing. 
SANDWICH TERN, Sterna cantiaca, Gm. 
At St. Roque. 
GREAT OR COMMON SKUA, Stercorarius catarractes (Linn.). 
This bold bird was swimming within about sixty yards of 
