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 PROCELLARIDÆ OR PETRRL FAMILY.

Thalassidroma pelagica   Stormy Petrel               Common Thalassidroma Leachii    Fork-tailed Petrel          Rather rare

LARIDÆ OR GULL FAMILY.

Larus canus              Common Gull                 Very common Larus ribibundus         Black-headed Gull           Very common Larus fuscus             Little Black-headed Gull    Common Larus tridactylus        Kittiwake Gull              Very common Larus Glaucus            Glaucus Gull                Rare Larus argentatus         Herring Gull                Very common Sterna hirundo           Sea-swallow or Tern         Common Sterna fuliginosa        Sooty Tern                  Rare Sterna minuta            Lesser Tern                 Common

PELECANIDÆ OR PELICAN FAMILY.

Graculus Carbo           Common Cormorant            Common

Graculus Cristata        Crested Cormorant           Rather rare

Sula Bassanea            Gannet or Solan Goose       Common

The fertile fields and sunny lanes of the Fylde afford ample opportunity for the botanist to indulge in his favourite pursuit, and a short ramble over any portion of the pleasant country will unfold to his inquiring gaze many of Nature's most beautiful and interesting offsprings. Specimens, especially of the maritime varieties of several of the floral families, unobtainable in the inland districts, may here be found lightly planted on the loose, sandy margins of the shore. In the context it is not intended to enter into a description of the different plants or of the localities in which they may most commonly be found, but merely to enumerate some of the more important ones; and in the following list all those inhabitants of the district, which are likely to interest the student of Botany or lover of Nature, are arranged in their various groups or orders:—

RANUNCULACEÆ OR BUTTERCUP ORDER.

Ranunculus aquatilis     Water Crowcroft "     Lingua         Spearwort

"     acris          Meadow Crowfoot    "      arvensis       Corn      " Thalictrum minus          Lesser Meadow-rue Delphinium consolida      Field Larkspur

NYMPHÆACEÆ OR LILY ORDER.

Nymphæa Alba             White Water-lily

PAPAVERACEÆ OR POPPY ORDER.

Papaver dubium           Long Smooth-headed Poppy "  Rhæas             Corn Poppy

Chelidonium majus        Common Celandine