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Porphyrio martinicus (Linn.) — According to Thompson (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist, xviii. 1846, 

 p. 311) one is said to have been killed in Ireland. It inhabits America from Florida to Brazil. 



Balearica pavonina (Linn.). — One is stated (Ibis, 1872, p. 201) to have been obtained in 

 Ayrshire, 17th September, 1871. Swainson says that he obtained several specimens when at 

 Malta, and Malherbe says that it is of accidental occurrence on the southern and eastern coasts 

 of Sicily ; but Prof. Giglioli has convinced himself (Ibis, 1881, p. 186) that these records are not 

 to be depended on, and that this species must be excluded from the avifauna of Italy. 



(Edicnemus senegalensis, Svv., is included by Prof. Giglioli (Avif. Italica, p. 367) on the 

 strength of a specimen in the Florence Museum labelled "(Ed. crepitans, Tuscany," but this 

 appears to me to be insufficient to base any claim to its being recognized as European. 



Charadrius dominicus, Mull. — Mr. J. H. Gurney (Ibis, 1883, p. 198) records the occurrence 

 of a specimen of the American Golden Plover in Leadenhall Market in November 1882, and a 

 second is stated to have been obtained in Perthshire in 1883. Mr. Gatke (Vogelw. Helgol. 

 p. 484) obtained one in Heligoland on the 20th December, 1847. 



vEgialitis mongolica (Pall.). — Temminck says that it occurs in Russia, and that one was 

 killed near St. Petersburg, but this statement lacks confirmation. 



Gallinago wilso ni (Temm.). — A single specimen of the American Snipe is said by Mr. Harting 

 (Handb. Brit. Birds, p. 143) to have been shot at Taplow Court, Bucks, in August 1863, but it is 

 possible that there was an error in the identification of the species. 



Symphemia semipalmata (Gm.). — Wallengren states (Naumannia, 1854, p. 256) that the 

 American Willet has once occurred in Upland, Sweden, but I believe this to be very doubtful. 



Numenius hudsonicus, Lath. — A single specimen was obtained by Lord Lilford in the Coto 

 de Donana, Spain, on the 3rd May, 1872. 



Sterna bergi, Licht. — One was recorded by Thompson (B. of Ireland, iii. p. 266) as having 

 been obtained near Sutton, between Dublin and Howth, at the end of December 1846 ; but 

 seeing that it had a black head, and was therefore in full summer plumage, this record is 

 certainly not worthy of belief. 



Sterna ancestheta, Scop. — Mr. Howard Saunders exhibited at a meeting of the Zoological 

 Society on the 6th February, 1877, a specimen of this Tern, which was said to have been 

 obtained on a lightship off the British coast, probably either at the mouth of the Thames or of 

 the Medway. 



Anous stolidus (Linn.). — According to Thompson (B. of Ireland, iii. p. 308) it has been once 

 obtained between Tusker Lighthouse, off the coast of Wexford, and Dublin Bay, in May 1830. 

 Temminck states that it has occurred on the French coast, but does not give any instance of its 

 capture there. 



Larus atricilla, Linn. — According to Montagu one was obtained near Winchelsea in 

 August 1774 ; but this recoi'd is open to grave doubt, and there does not appear to be any 

 authentic instance of its occurrence in Europe. 



