A VOCET. 
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YAUILX—Scolopacidce. 
Genus — Recurvirostra. 
224. Recurvirostra avocetta. Avocet. 
A rare occasional visitor to the coast. 
Our earliest record is from Longcroft's " Hundred of 
Bosmere," which mentions " the Avoset, as killed in 
Emsworth Harbour in the month of April, 1806, and 
again in the same month the following year : never before 
noticed." 
Wise mentions one killed at Exbury, in December, 
i8s8. 
A specimen in the Winchester College Museum was 
killed by a bargeman named Bath on the Itchen, near 
Southampton, in 1865. 
Mr. J. G. Millais has an example killed at Christchurch 
in May, 1868. 
Messrs. W. Hart and Son wrote to the " Zoologist " in 
January, 1869, to record a specimen shot at Portsmouth 
in that month, and then in the possession of Major Breton. 
Colonel Irby informs us that no less than eighteen were 
seen in Southampton Water in September, 1880, of which 
twelve were shot, and the Rev. Dr. Arnold tells us that two 
were obtained at Emsworth in the followinor month. 
Mr. Hart has two in his collection procured near 
Christchurch, on November 9th, 1885, and he saw a party 
of five in the harbour on September 29th, 1891. 
Dr. Arnold informs us of another killed at Emsworth 
in 1898. 
