LIST OF BIRDS lv 
The bracketed species are as follows :— 
Sylvia curruca, . : Lesser Whitethroat. 
Coracias garrula, : Roller. 
Athene noctua, . f : Little Owl. 
Aquila chrysaétus, : Golden Eagle. 
Pandion haliaétus, : : Osprey. 
Ardetta minuta, . ; : Little Bittern. 
Platalea leucorodia, . Spoonbill. 
Macrorhamphus griseus, ; Red-breasted Snipe. 
Sterna cantiaca, . Sandwich Tern. 
On a different footing are the record of :— 
Chenalopex cegyptiacus, Egyptian Goose, 
Bernicla canadensis, . : Canada Goose, 
Cygnus olor, ; Mute Swan, 
species which have occurred, but only as escapes from domestica. 
tion. 
Want of evidence has necessitated the exclusion of other species, 
which yet—as can from their general distribution scarcely be 
doubted—must have occurred, and will again occur, in Man, or 
off its coasts. Such are the Blackcap Warbler, Ray’s Wagtail,! the 
Mealy Redpoll, the Lapland Bunting, the Carrion Crow,? the Jay, 
the Eider and Long-tailed Ducks, the Velvet Scoter, the Pink- 
footed Goose, the Ruff, and the Fulmar Petrel. 
1 Mr. C. H. B. Grant reported to Mr. Kermode that he saw two birds of this 
species in Maughold on 8th December 1900 (Y. LZ. M., iii. 521, 634). The 
occurrence of the Yellow Wagtail at that time of year is very unlikely, though 
Seebohm remarks that it does not entirely quit our shores in winter. The authors 
of Birds of Ireland seem to know nothing of occurrences in winter in that 
country, where it breeds very locally. 
2 See article on Hooded Crow, p. 100. 
