324 RARER PALMIPEDES. 
catcher seems partial to the rocks and portions of 
the coast far out towards the open sea, where it 
occurs in small parties in autumn and winter. 
The Ringed Plover has been supposed to repair 
to other countries on the occurrence of the winter’s 
cold, but in Devon I am quite sure it resides on the 
coasts of our estuaries through the winter. 
(Forthe localities of our rarer and more interesting 
birds of the South Devon shores, see the catalogue 
in the last chapter and the 3rd of the maps accom- 
panying the present text.) 
The web-footed birds of Devon are very numerous, 
compared with those of other maritime counties ; 
and yet if we regard Devon relatively to its marine 
ornithology alone, the greatest number of deficien- 
cies will be found amongst the present tribe. 
These deficient species are either rarities, or such 
as are limited to the northern isles, so that we 
may fairly state that we possess all the English 
birds any way common and which are not by 
the laws of their physical distribution confined to 
more northern abodes, and further, that we have 
a very large proportion of those rare birds which 
occur however sparingly, in nearly all parts of 
our island, or on the other hand which have been no- 
ticed a very few times in the whole of the country. 
The following are the rarer birds of this class ob- 
served with us,—Crested and Red-necked Grebes, 
Black-throated Diver, Black Guillemot, Little Auk, 
Puffin, Cinereous and Common Shearwaters, 
Fork-tailed Petrel, Skua, Fulmar, Arctic Jager, 
Burgomaster, Arctic, and Little Gulls ; Sandwich, 
Arctic, Lesser, and black Terns; Goosander ; 
Merganser; Ferruginous, Eider, Scoter, Velvet, 
Gadwall, Long-tailed, Garganey, Pintail, Scaup, 
Shieldrake, Golden-eye, and Shoveller Ducks ; 
Bean, White-fronted, Red-breasted, Bernacle, and 
Brent Geese, and Wild Swan. 'The occurrence of 
