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parts of the Black Forest, protect the Kestrel, and acknowledge 

 its usefulness by allowing it to build on their houses. 



Pandion haliaetus. I noticed two pairs on the Rhine, between 

 Schaffausen and Constance, in 1886. 



Phalacrocorax carbo. Maxan ; once observed. 



Ardea cinerea. Occasionally visits the Stadtgarten lake, and 

 the meadows at Gottesau, close by. There is a heronry near 

 Oos ; but I could form no estimate of the number of nests, for 

 they were out of sight, on the summit of high firs. Another colony 

 on the Neckar, I believe, was founded long ago by some emperor 

 expressly for the purposes of falconry.* 



Botaurus stellaris. A good number of this class of birds are 

 still obtained, principally during the Snipe season. A migrating 

 Bittern was caught — in 1886 I think — in an exhausted condition, 

 in a stable not far from Karlsruhe. 



Ciconia alba. Not so familiar as in some parts of the conti- 

 nent, though most villages possess one pair, the Storks arrive early, 

 in the latter part of February, and lose no time in arranging and 

 re-arranging the materials for their nests, the foundation of which 

 is usually an old cart-wheel. I once noticed quite an unusual 

 number of them (twenty-nine) collected together on some flooded 

 meadows near Gottesau. One stork used to live in the streets of 

 Karlsruhe, and was remarkably tame, till somebody took the liberty 

 of painting his legs blue, since which time it has not been heard of. 



Anas boschas. Large flocks of this and other species pass 

 over the town in winter ; I have not had an opportunity of seeing 

 any of them at close quarters, but a glance at Kettner's list will 

 show that the country has a surprising variety of visitors, natatory 

 as well as grallatorial. 



Columba palumbus and C. anas. Both appear slightly on the 

 increase. 



Turtur communis. More plentiful in the Bavarian Palatinate. 



Phasianus colchicus. In parts of the Hardwald and Rhine 

 woods (Forchheim). The call-note differs a little from that of 

 the English bird. 



Perdix cinerea. Common in the plain. 



Coturnix communis. In fields near Beiertheim. 



Tetrao bonasia. Appears to be well-nigh extinct in most 



* The truth of this supposition might be ascertained possibly by reference 

 to the archives preserved at Heidelburg. — Ed. 



