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BRITISH SPECIES UNKNOWN AS IRISH. 
The following species of the order Gmllatores have occurred in 
Great Britain and not in Ireland : — 
1. Cream-coloured Courser, Cursorius Isabellinus, Meyer. 
2. Little Ringed Plover, Charadrius minor, Meyer. 
3. Great WMte Heron, Ardea alia, Linn. 
4. Buff-backed, or Little White Heron, „ russata, Temm. 
5. Black Stork, Ciconia nigra, 
6. Spotted Sandpiper, Totanus macularius, Linn, (sp.) 
7. Brown or Grey Snipe, Scolojpax grisea, Gmel. 
8. Pectoral Sandpiper, Tringa pectoralis,^on?c^. 
9. Little Crake or Olivaceous Gallinule, Crex pusilla, Gmel. (sp.) 
10. Red-necked Phalarope, Phalaropus hyperboreus, Linn, (sp.) 
The 1st — Cursorius Isabellinus — is a native of Africa^ but 
visits the north of that continent only in summer. It is in- 
cluded in the British fauna from four individuals having been 
obtained in England, and is very rarely observed in any country 
north of the Mediterranean (Yarr.). 
The 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5 th come much under the same cate- 
gory. But one individual of the Charadrkis minor (procured 
at Shoreham in Sussex) is positively recorded as obtained in Eng- 
land. The British Islands lie too far west to be often visited by 
the species. Though an occasional summer migrant to Sweden, 
the countries southward of the Baltic Sea are those particularly 
frequented by it. In England, six, and in Scotland, one, of the 
Ardea alba have been killed. This bird appears to be an oc- 
casional visitant only to the countries throughout the more western 
half of Europe in any latitude : it is more frequent eastward. A 
single Ardea russata, procured in Devonshire so long ago as 
1807, is on record as British. The species is chiefly met with in 
the more southern portions of the east of Europe, and prevails 
thence eastward (in India commonly) over Asia. Eour of the 
Ciconia nigra have been obtained in England, — two of them in the 
west; — in Somersetshire and Devonshire. This bird is found 
especially in the more eastern half of Europe, or eastward of 
