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latest appearance of this species of which we have any notice occurred 

 on the 5th of November, 1843, and of the martin on the 28th of the 

 same month, in 1837. 



Common Quail (Coturnix vulgaris). Mr. Goatley has favoured us 

 with two notices of the quail having been found in Oxfordshire during 

 the winter ; and two instances of a similar nature have also occurred 

 to ourselves, viz., on the 10th of November, 1846, and on the 9th of 

 December, 1848 : these birds were in fine plumage and quite fat. 



Landrail (Crex pratensis). Like the quail, this species occasion- 

 ally remains with us during the winter. We have met with them in 

 this parish on the 27th of December, 1841, and on the 13th of De- 

 cember, 1848. Mr. Roundell informs us that in the winter of 1846-7, 

 during a severe frost, with snow on the ground, a landrail was con- 

 stantly seen feeding with the fowls in a farm-yard, in the parish of 

 Fringford, in this county ; and that another specimen was killed near 

 the same place, in January, 1844. 



Class III. — Winter Visitors. 



To our regular winter visitors, such as the snipe and fieldfare, we 

 have added the numerous species of water-fowl whose visits — however 

 few and far between — have always occurred at that particular season 

 of the year. We feel justified in so arranging them for this reason, 

 that, were they equally plentiful, their appearance would probably be 

 as regular as that of the above-named species. 



Merlin (Falco JEsalori). Spotted redshank (Totanus fuscm). 



Long-eared owl (Otus vulgaris). Common redshank (Totanus calidris). 



Short-eared owl (Otus brachyotos). Greenshank (Totanus glottis). 



Great gray shrike (Lanius excubitor). Ruff (Machetes pugnax). 



Fieldfare (Turdus pilaris). Woodcock (Scolopax rusiicola). 



Redwing (Turdus iliacus). Great snipe (Scolopax major). 



Gray wagtail (Motacilla boarula). Common snipe (Scolopax Gallinago). 



Snow bunting (Plectrophanes nivalis). Jack snipe (Scolopax Gallinula). 



Mountain finch (Fringilla montifringilla). Curlew sandpiper (Tringa subarquata). 



Golden plover (Charadrius pluvialis). Knot (Tringa Canutus). 



Ringed plover (Charadrius hiaticula). Dunlin (Tringa variabilis). 



Kentish plover (Charadrius Cantianus). Purple sandpiper (Tringa maritima). 



Gray plover (Squatarola cinerea). Red-necked phalarope (Phalaropus hyper- 



Turnstone (Strepsilas interpres). boreus). 



Sanderling (Calidris arenaria). Gray-legged goose (Anscr ferns). 



Oyster-catcher (Hannatopus ostralcgus). Bean goose (Anscr segetum). 



