BIRD PELLETS—EVIDENCE AS TO FOOD OF BIRDS. 119
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