5 i6 MIGRATION OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



Rail. Every fpecies of thefe two genera 



Water hens. continue with us the whole year ; the 



Land Rail excepted, which is not 

 feen here in winter. It likewife con- 

 tinues in Ireland only during the fum- 

 mer months, when they are very nu- 

 merous, as Mr. Smith tells us in the 

 hiftory of Waterford, p. %%6. Great 

 numbers appear in Anglefea the latter 

 end of May ; it is fuppofed that they 

 pafs over from Ireland, the paflage 

 between the two iflands being but 

 fmall. As we have inltances of thefe 

 birds lighting on fhips in the Channel 

 and the Bay of Bifcay, we conjecture 

 their winter quarters to be in Spain. 



FINNED FOOTED WATER BIRDS. 



Scollop toed Vifit us but feldom -, their breeding 



Sandpipers. place is Lapland*, and other arctic 



regions. 



Coot, Inhabites Great-Britain the whole 



year. 



Grefa* The great crefied Grebe, the black and 



white Grebe, and little Grebe breed 

 with us, and never migrate; the 

 others vifit us accidentally, and 

 breed in Lapland. 



* Aman. acaa. iv, CQO* ; 



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