‘THE BIRDS OF DEVON.’ 5 
The following 22 species (9 of them American), which have 
occurred in Cornwall and the Scilly Islands, have not yet been 
obtained in Devonshire :-— 
Red-breasted Flycatcher. Iceland Falcon. Bartram’s Sandpiper. 
Tawny Pipit. Spotted Eagle. Solitary Sandpiper. 
Ortolan Bunting. Lesser Kestrel. Yellowshank. 
Two-barred Crossbill. Green Teron. Kskimo Curlew. 
Red-winged S:arling. Baillon’s Crake. Roseate Tern. 
Short-toed Lark. Collared Pratincole. Bonaparte’s Gull. 
American Hawk-Owl. Little Ringed Plover. 
Scops Owl. Killdeer Plover. 
Of these, the Two-barred Crossbill (?), American Hawk-Owl, 
Baillon’s Crake, Collared Pratincole, and Bartram’s Sandpiper 
have also occurred in Somersetshire; and the Scops Owl and 
Collared Pratincole in Dorsetshire. 
Six species have been met with in Somersetshire which cannot 
be claimed for Devonshire, viz. :— 
Marsh Warbler. Tengmalm’s Owl. Purple Gallinule. 
Red Grouse. Egyptian Vulture. Sooty Tern. 
One accidental visitor has occurred in Dorset only :— 
Cape Pigeon. 
W. 8. ML DU. 
November, 1895. M. A. M. 
Fieldfare (p. 4). 
We learn from Mr. E. A. S. Elliot that Fieldfares appeared in large 
flocks at Kingsbridge at the commencement of tlie severe weather in 
February 1895. Apparently the bulk of them passed on, as during the 
frost but few were noticed, and by the end of the month all of them that 
had remained had perished. He states that the number of Redwings, 
Thrushes, Blackbirds, Starlings, and Mistle-Thrushes that were destroyed 
by the severe cold was perfectly appalling; the roads, in many places, 
were strewn with dead bodies; while by the sides of the Estuary under 
the cliffs, in warm and sheltered spots in the undergrowth, there were 
heaps of dead birds that had perished as the sun passed below the horizon 
after they had crept in seeking for food and shelter. 
