RARER GRALLZ OF THE SOUTH HAMS. 309 
The order of Waders (Cuvierian system is still fol- 
lowed,) comprehends some which reside in swampy 
situations, or in connexion with inland rivers and 
lakes, besides being principally composed of those 
usually termed shore birds, (which likewise at times 
resort to rivers and lakes, and for the most part 
breed in fens or retired swampy spots) and a few 
other species which are by no means water birds, 
and are found in very different situations from the 
other Gralle. Accordingly, some birds of this 
order find a place in the Oxfordshire list, and may 
with propriety be enumerated amongst our own 
birds of the South Hams. Of these some breed on 
Dartmoor and appear in autumn and winter on the 
cultivated lands, as before noticed with respect to 
the Golden Plover, the Grey Plover, and the Lap- 
wing. Some individuals of the Woodcock and 
Snipe also breed in retired moorland situations, 
and appear with the main body of those migrators 
in the cultivated parts on the occurrence of the first 
cold. The Curlew and Dunlin (or some of them) 
breed on the moors, and pass over to the shores and 
rocks in winter, while very many species may be 
regarded as common to the cultivated parts and to 
the coasts, rendering it in some degree questionable 
-which situation should claim them. 'The Gralle 
however generally are shore birds. I enumerate 
about twenty-two Waders as frequenters of the 
cultivated districts of South Devon, and of these 
thirteen are found in Oxfordshire, the remainder 
consisting of the Grey Plover, the Great Snipe, 
Olivaceous Gallinule, Spotted Gallinule, Dottrel, 
Little Bustard, Little Gallinule, Ruff, and Green 
Sandpiper, all of which are as in the preceding in- 
stances of birds found here and not in Oxfordshire 
rarities, or at least uncommon birds. Nor does that 
county claim any species not found with us, as may 
readily be imagined from the fact that there are but 
