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but I have never seen either species in the Island, nor have I seen a Channel Island skin, nor can I find that either the bird-stuffers or the fishermen and the various shooters know anything about them. I have therefore, though I think it by no means; unlikely that both birds occasionally occur, thought it better to omit their names from my list. Professor Ansted has only mentioned one of the family--the Great Skua, _Stercorarius catarrhactes_,--in his list, which also may occasionally occur, as may Buffon's Skua, _Stercorarius parasiticus_; but neither of these seem to me so likely to occur as the two first-mentioned, not being by any means so common on the English side of the Channel. In bringing my labours to a conclusion I must again thank Mr. MacCulloch and others, who have assisted me in my work either by notes or by helping in out-door work. FINIS. ENDNOTES. [1] _a_ Alderney. _e_ Guernsey. _i_ Jersey. _o_ Sark. _u_ Jethou and Herm.] [2] This was nearly the whole of the Vale, including L'Ancresse Common. [3] Fourteen "livres tournois" are about equal to L1. [4] This Act is passed annually at the Chief Pleas after Easter. [5] _Falco aesalon_, Tunstall, H.S. 1771. _Falco aesalon_, Gmelin, Y., 1788. [6] See Temminok. [7] See 'Birds of Spain,' by Howard Saunders, Esq., published in the works of the Societe Zoologique de France, where he says:--"_C. ceruginosus_ et _C. cyaneus_ ont les lisieres exterieures des remiges emarginees, jusqu'a et y comprise la cinquieme, et cette forme se trouve en presque toutes les _Circus_ exotiques. En _C. swainsonii_ (the Pallid Harrier) et _C. cineraceus_ cette emargination successive se borne a la quatrieme." We have little to do with this distinction, except as between _C. cyaneus_ and _C. cineraceus, C. aeruginosus_ being otherwise sufficiently distinct, and _C. swainsonii_ not coming within our limits. [8] "Tereus," I soon found, as I expected, was Mr. MacCulloch. [9] These reeds are the common reed Spires, Spire-reed, or Pool-reed. _Arundo phragmites_. See 'Popular Names of British Plants,' by Dr. Prior, p. 219. [10] This name of Temminck is no doubt applied to the Continental form, _Acredula caudata_, of Linnaeus, not to the British form now elevated into a species under the name _Acredula rosea_, of Blyth. Owing to want of specimens I have not been able to say to which form the Channel Island Long-tailed Tit belongs,
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