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from that year to 1889, we find him credited with no less 

 than ninety-two communications, none of them of great length, 

 nor perhaps of great importance from a scientific point of 

 view; but most of them certainly useful as recording facts, 

 chiefly ornithological, ascertained by a careful and competent 

 observer. 



The following is a list of them in chronological order : — 



1863.— Summer Birds at Taunton, p. 8816. 



1864.— Food of Books, pp. 8885, 9043. Little Auk in Somerset- 

 shire, p. 8891. Egyptian Goose and Great Grey Shrike in Somersetshire, 

 p. 9348. 



1865. — List of Birds in the parish of Bishop's Lydeard, p. 9794. Crane 

 at Stalford, p. 9848. 



1866. — Black Tern in Somersetshire, p. 272. Birds observed in 

 Channel Islands, exclusive of Jersey, p. 447. 



1867.— Purple Sandpiper, Little Gull, and Fulmar Petrel on S. Coast 

 Devon, p. 562. Red-throated Diver and Norfolk Plover in Somerset and 

 Devon, p. 760. Lesser Tern at Taunton ; Sandwich Tern and Snow 

 Bunting at Exmouth, p. 832. 



1868. — Curious variety of House Martin ; Late appearance of the 

 Swallow, p. 1058. Long-tailed Duck at Exmouth, p. 1059. Black-tailed 

 Godwit in Somerset, p. 1178. Chough in Somerset, p. 1219. Lesser 

 Tern in Devonshire ; Black Tern in Somerset, p. 1378. 



1869. — Common Crossbill near Taunton, p. 1514. Ornithological 

 Notes from South Devon, p. 1845. Robin and Wigeon breeding in 

 confinement, p. 1865. [Nest of Wigeon in mowing grass; five eggs laid, 

 but addled.] 



1870.— Robin eating Ladybirds, p. 1981. Fulmar Petrel, Little Auk, 

 and Grey Phalarope in Somerset, p. 1982. White's Thrush in Somerset, 

 p. 2018. Ruff in Somersetshire, p. 2103. Red-necked Grebe at Teign- 

 mouth, p. 2106. Grey Phalarope at Bishop's Lydeard, p. 2385. Little 

 Crake in Somerset, p. 2386. Schinz's Sandpiper in North Devon ; 

 sternum of Schinz's Sandpiper, p. 2409. Grey Phalaropes in Somerset, 

 p. 2410. 



1871. — Bird baiting, p. 2438. Wood Sandpiper in Somerset, p. 2441. 

 Grey Phalarope near Taunton, p. 2442. Great Bustards in Devonshire, 

 p. 2475. Iceland Gull in Somerset, p. 2488. Bittern in Somerset, p. 2522. 

 Canada Goose, p. 2523. Red-necked Grebe and Bittern in Somerset, 

 p. 2563. White's Thrush in Somerset, p. 2607. The flock of Bustards ; 

 American Bittern in Guernsey, p. 2642. Cormorant inland in Somerset, 

 p. 2810. Marsh Harrier in Somerset, p. 2866. Food of the Wood 

 Pigeon, p. 2868, 



