2594 Birds. 



Temminck's stint (Tringa Temminckii). Arctic tern (Sterna arctica). 



Spotted crake (Crex Porzana). Lesser tern (Sterna minuta). 



Gray phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus). Black tern (Sterna nigra). 



Garganey duck (Anas querquedula). Black-headed gull (Larus ridibundus). 



Great crested grebe (Podiceps cristatus). Kittiwake (Larus Rissa). 



Ked-necked grebe (Podiceps rubricoliis). Common gull (Larus canus). 



Sclavonian grebe (Podiceps cornutus). Iceland gull (Larus Icelandicus). 



Eared grebe (Podiceps auritus). Lesser black-backed gull (Larus fuscus). 



Common guillemot (Uria Troile). Herring gull (Larus argentatus). 



Little auk (Mergulus Alle). Great black-backed gull (Larus marinus). 



Puffin (Fratercula arctica). Pomerine skua (Lestris Pomarinus). 



Common cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo). Richardson's skua (Lestris Richardsonii). 



Green cormorant (Phalacrocorax cristatus). Fulmar petrel (Procellaria glacialis). 



Gannet (Sula Bassana). Manx shearwater (Puffinus Anglorum). 



Sandwich tern (Sterna Boysii). F ork-tailed petrel (Thalassidroma Leachii). 



Roseate tern (Sterna Dougallii). Storm petrel (Thalassidroma pelagica). 

 Common tern (Sterna Hirundo). 



Golden Eagle (Aquila (Chrysaetos). In Dr. Lamb's MSS. there is 

 a notice of a golden eagle having been killed near Shottisbrook, in 

 Berkshire, in the year 1794. 



White-tailed Eagle (Haliaetos albicilla). A bird of this species 

 was shot on the Wantage Downs, Berkshire, in January, 1793. — Dr. 

 T. Another occurred a few years ago near Henley-on-Thames, in 

 this county ; and a third was caught in a trap near the Chequers Court, 

 Buckinghamshire, the seat of Sir Robert Frankland Russell, in 1846. 

 The notice of the capture of the last-mentioned specimen was com- 

 municated by Mr. Willoughby Beauchamp, of Monk's Risborough, 

 Buckinghamshire, from whom we have received much useful informa- 

 tion respecting the birds of that neighbourhood. 



Osprey {Pandion Haliaetos). Within the last few years three spe- 

 cimens of the osprey have been killed near Oxford : one of these was 

 shot in Nuneham Park, and is now in the possession of Mr. Harcourt. 

 Dr. Tomkins also mentions two instances of its occurrence in Berk- 

 shire; once at Donnington, and subsequently at Pangbourne, in 

 January, 1810. 



Gyr Falcon (Falco Islandicus). On Sunday, the 10th of October, 

 1847, near Tetsworth, in this county, we observed a large bird sitting 

 in a field adjoining the turnpike road : upon a nearer approach it 

 proved to be a very fine gyr falcon, in the act of devouring a wood 

 pigeon. He was in no way disconcerted by our attention to him, but 

 finished his meal, and then flew up into a small tree, where he cleaned 

 his beak and talons with the utmost composure. We had been 

 watching him for several minutes at the trifling distance of sixty-five 



