16 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



There is no doubt that many other species of these birds 

 must or may appear during the flights, but only naturalists who 

 are accustomed to live in that neighbourhood can make a complete 

 list. That, however, in our case is not very important, because it 

 is rather difficult to find a very rare water or shore bird in those 

 districts, though we may easily meet other species, as Dunlins, 

 Sandpipers, Water-Rails, Crakes, Coots, Gulls, Terns, Grebes, 

 &c., which are not uncommon in the neighbouring open plain, 

 where they can live at their ease. As these places are not 

 adapted for them, they may appear here only as stragglers, or in 

 the flight-time as irregular ones ; but this fact seems to me of 

 very little interest, for I firmly believe it exceedingly difficult 

 to find Sociable Lapwings, Phalaropes, Purple Sandpipers, 

 Bartram's Sandpipers, Bernicle Geese, Scoters, and Skuas here, 

 or the many other birds of rare appearance in our subregion, 

 which offer a particular interest to the Italian ornithologists. 



