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in Devonshire, and several other interesting species, possibly, that do not 
now nest in our county. 
Black Stork (p. 196). 
“On April 3rd, about 2.30 p.m., two large birds were observed standing 
on a rock about twenty yards from the shore off Salcombe Cove, near 
Sidmouth. They looked like Herons in size, or a little larger, and in 
examining them with a binocular, the plumage was black or very dark, 
the beak red and long, and the legs red and long. My informant, an 
Eton Master, is no ornithologist, but on showing him the coloured plate 
of Crconta nigra in Dresser’s ‘ Birds of Europe,’ he without the slightest 
hesitation recognized it as the species he saw at Salcombe.” (Edward 
Hamilton, 16 Cromwell Place, S.W., in Zool. 1894, p. 429.) 
Spoonbill (p. 197). 
We found the remains of an adult Spoonbill lying on the beach at 
Exmouth, in January 1894. (W.S8. M. D’U.) 
Pink-footed Goose (p. 207). 
We have much satisfaction in adding this species to the Devonshire 
Avifauna as an undoubted occasional winter visitor. Mr. W. V. Toll 
informs us that on February 12th, 1895, he saw three Geese on Slapton 
Ley, that flew off without his getting a shot at them, and that he wrote 
to inform Mr. E. A. 8. Elliot. But, a few days before, Mr. Elliot had 
obtained a Pink-footed Goose that had been shot in Aveton Giffard Marsh, 
on Feb. 8th. Three Geese had been seen in Kingsbridge Estuary, and 
this was probably one of them. (HE. A. S. E., in litt.) A very severe 
frost was prevailing all over England and the Continent at the time. 
Brent Goose (p. 208). 
Some light-breasted birds obtained by Mr. E. A. S. Elliot near Kings- 
bridge are, he considers, intermediate between the two forms of this 
Goose. 
Barnacle Goose (p. 209). 
A Barnacle Goose is said to have been shot at Axminster a few days 
before 4th January, 1892. (‘ Exeter Gazette,’ 4th Jan., 1892.) 
Mute Swan (p. 212). 
Some of these birds are in the habit of flying from the Swannery at 
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