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Barn Owl Herring Gull 
Tawny Owl Lesser Black-backed Gull 
Snowy Owl Great Crested Grebe 
Common Buzzard Red-necked Grebe 
Sparrow-hawk Slavonian Grebe 
Peregrine Falcon Eared Grebe 
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B. Birds whose pellets have been found around, beneath, or 
in the nest or nesting-place or the roosting or feeding place :— 
Dipper White-tailed Eagle 
Great Grey Shrike Kite 
Chough Lesser Kestrel 
Magpie Cormorant 
Jackdaw Heron 
Raven Ring-dove 
Nightjar Curlew 
Halcyon fuscicapilla (a South African Black-headed Gull 
Kingfisher) Common Gull 
Belted Kingfisher Great Black-backed Gull 
Bee-eater Larus dominicanus (a New Zealand 
Long-eared Owl Gull) 
Short-eared Owl ‘ Glaucous Gull 
Little Owl Ivory Gull 
Eagle-Owl Great Skua 
Spotted Eagle-Owl (of South 
Africa) 
C. Birds whose reputed pellets have been picked up :— 
Missel Thrush Mottled Wood-Owl 
Carrion-Crow Spotted Owlet 
Halcyon vagans (a New Zealand Domestic Goose 
Kingfisher) Chinese Goose 
Southern Little Owl (of Egypt) 
D. Birds stated [without corroborative evidence! to pro- 
duce pellets. :— 
Song Thrush and “all the Thrushes’’ Alpine Swift 
Swallow Needle-tailed Swift 
House Martin Cuckoo 
Starling Tengmalm’s Owl 
swift ~ Golden Eagle 
I propose in the following pages to summarise the known 
facts with regard to each of the above birds, but the list given 
must not be regarded as by any means complete. 
It is to be believed that many birds besides those men- 
tioned possess the pellet-casting habit, but definite records are 
wanting. It is somewhat remarkable that, whilst scores of 
repeated observations in this regard have been made on a few 
