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The two in the Museum seem to bear out this, as one is nearly in winter plumage, and the other is assuming the red plumage of the breeding season, and could not have been killed before April or May. The Sanderling is included in Professor Ansted's list, and marked by him as occurring in Guernsey and Sark. GREY PHALAROPE. Phalaropus fulicarius, Linnaeus.
The Bar-tailed Godwit is included in Professor Ansted's list, but only marked as occurring in Guernsey. It is, however, as I have shown, perhaps more common in Herm, and it also occurs in Alderney. There is a series of these in the Museum in change and breeding-plumage.
I saw two or three about the grounds of the Vallon in July, 1878, which were probably the parents and their brood which had been hatched somewhere in the grounds. It is mentioned in Professor Ansted's list as occurring only in Guernsey. There is one specimen in the Museum. YELLOW HAMMER. Emberiza citrinella, Linnaeus. French, "Bruant jaune."
Couch as having taken place at Herm on the 23rd of March, 1877. The White-tailed Eagle is included in Professor Ansted's list, but its range in the Islands is restricted to Guernsey. There is one in the museum, probably killed in Guernsey, in the plumage in which the Channel Island specimens usually occur, but no note is given as to locality or date. OSPREY. Pandion halioeetus, Linnaeus.
I can, however, find no direct evidence of its having done so, and therefore can look upon it as nothing but an occasional autumnal straggler. The Black Tern is not included in Professor Ansted's list, and there is no specimen in the Museum. Professor Ansted includes the Lesser Tern in his list, but that may have been a mistake, as my skin of a young Black Tern was sent to me for a Lesser Tern.
MacCulloch that he had a note of the occurrence of the Brambling or Mountain Finch in January, 1855. It cannot, however, be looked upon as anything more than a very rare occasional straggler, by no means occurring every year. It is mentioned in Professor Ansted's list, and marked as occurring in Guernsey and Sark. There is no specimen at present in the Museum.
The Hooded Crow is included in Professor Ansted's list, and marked as occurring in Guernsey and Sark; and there are two specimens in the Museum. ROOK. Corvus frugilegus, Linnaeus. French, "Freux", "Corbeau Freux." I have never seen the Rook in the Islands myself, even as a stranger, but Mr.
The Puffin is included in Professor Ansted's list, but marked as occurring only in Guernsey and Sark.
MacCulloch, who says he is very doubtful as to the occurrence of the Jay in the Island, and adds that the local name for the Mistletoe Thrush is "Geai." Mr. Gallienne, in a note to Professor Ansted's list, confirms the scarcity of the Jay, as he says the Rook and the Jay are rarely seen here, although they are indigenous to Jersey.
Couch, dated the 20th December, 1872, in which he informed me that a Little Auk had been taken alive in Guernsey on the 17th of that month: this one had probably, as is often the case, been driven ashore during a gale, and, being too exhausted to rise, had been taken by hand. The Little Auk is included in Professor Ansted's list, and marked as occurring in Guernsey and Sark.
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