IN THE KINGSBRIDGE DISTRICT. bi 
In this decade we get a second example of the Rufous 
Warbler, shot near Slapton, its peculiar flight attracting 
notice; only three of these birds have ever been obtained 
in Great Britain. The Blue-headed Wagtail and Curlew 
Sandpiper were first detected as occurring in the neighbour- 
hood. The Green-winged Teal I saw myself in the flesh ; 
it is only the second example that has occurred in Great 
Britain. The White-eyed Duck was a female, and was 
picked out from amongst the slain after a Ley day in 1874. 
An immense flock of Bar-tailed Godwits came into the 
estuary in May, 1876; it is only rarely these birds visit 
us in the spring migration, when they are in full summer 
dress. The two Bewick’s Swan were shot on the estuary. 
From 1880 to 1890 are recorded: Nightingale, Great Grey 
Shrike, Tree Sparrow, Brambling (huge flocks winter of 
1889-90), Lesser Redpole, Chough (last nesting pair shot 
probably 1885), Wryneck, Hoopoe, Kite, Merlins, Spoonbill, 
Grey Lag Goose, Bean Goose, White-fronted Goose, Bernacle 
Goose, Stock Doves (first noticed breeding 1887), Quail 
year (1885), Stone Curlew, Dotterel, Spotted Redshank, 
Black Tern (summer, 1890), Pomatorhine Skua (great flight 
1885). 
These records are rather voluminous, but are very 
interesting, though only few can be touched on; the Tree 
Sparrow, Lesser Redpole, and Stock Dove are added as 
indigenous to the district. The Great Grey Shrike was 
shot in a thorn bush on Ore Point; his larder, which I 
found well stocked in the thorns, consisted of small birds 
and beetles. The pair of Choughs were shot on Folly Cliffs 
during the breeding season in 1885, and were probably the 
last left on this part of the coast. The Grey Lag Goose 
fraternized with a flock of tame ones for some days before 
it was shot with a rifle at six hundred yards. The Nightin- 
gales came in a small flock (a most unusuai circumstance) 
of about twenty, and were noticed in a hedge leading down 
to the sea at Thurlestone; they were accompanied by 
Redstarts, and neither species was identified until brought 
into the town. 
In the last seven years—from 1890 to 1897—we get 
records of: White Wagtail (first identified with district), 
Woodchat Shrike, Hoopoe, Short-eared Owl (great flights 
1893), Bitterns, Pink-footed Goose, Bernacle Goose, Surf 
Scoter, Smew, Quail year (1892), Phalarope year (1891), Ruff, 
Spotted Redshank, Bar-tailed Godwit, years (1895 and 1891), 
Little Gull, Sabine’s Gull, Manx Shearwater. 
