AVES. 



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Wood Sandpiper, T. glareola ; not uncommon in the autumn, and 

 sometimes in the spring months. 



Common Sandpiper, T. hypoleucos ; summer visitant. 



Greenshank, T. glottis ; not uncommonly met with in the same 

 localities as the redshank. This bird shews the connecting 

 link between the sandpiper and the godwits, in the form of 

 the beak, which turns a little upwards. 



Avocet, Recurvirostra avocetta ; very rare as a Cornish bird : one 

 obtained from the Land's-end, apparently a bird of the year, 

 in September, 1847. 



Black-tailed Godwit, Limosa melanura ; occasional visitant. 



Bar-tailed Godwit, Z, rufa ; generally to be met with in the 

 autumnal months on flat sands and estuaries. In summer 

 the breast of this species is bright bay, in winter white ; the 

 breast of the bird of the year, until the next summer, buff. 



Ruff, Machetes pugnax ; occasionally met with in the autumnal 

 months only in the marshes in the Land's-end district. 



Woodcock, Scolopax rusticola ; winter visitor : universally distri- 

 buted. 



Great Snipe, S. major ; very rare generally in the western counties. 



Common Snipe, S. gallinago ; universally distributed in suitable 

 localities : a brown variety, with, the dorsal stripes narrower, 

 occasionally met with. 



Jack Snipe, 8. Gallinula ; as universally distributed as the last- 

 named species. 



Sabine's Snipe, S. Sabini. This variety of the common snipe, as 

 it is supposed to be by some, and doubted by others, was 

 killed near Carnanton, in the neighbourhood of St. Columb, 

 in January, 1862 ; also at Madron recently. 



Brown Snipe, Macrorhampus griseus ; very rare as a British bird, 

 five or six examples only having occurred : one reputed to 

 have been killed in Devon. Very common on the shores of 

 America. The first and only example of this rare species 

 in Cornwall (a bird of the year) occurred at Scilly, on the 

 3rd of October, 1857. 



Curlew Tringa. Tringa subarquata ; common in the autumnal 

 months along our flat beaches. 



Knot, T. canutus ; a few observed on most of our flat beaches in 

 the autumnal and spring seasons : in summer plumage the 

 breast is bright red, in winter, white. 



