Catalogue of the Birds of Suffolk Book

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: APPENDIX. Accidental Visitors. The birds already enumerated belong to the class which we may call true Britons. These are included in the first part of Harting's Handbook of British Birds (see above, Introd.). His second part consists of what he calls " Rare and Accidental Visitors '' ; these have been met with in Britain only a few or a very few times, some of them only once. In the last published list of British Birds (Lond. 1883), compiled by a Committee of the British Ornithologists' Union, and referred to above as the His List it has "been deemed advisable to regard as British every species of which even a single specimen has been obtained in an undoubtedly wild state within the confines of the British Islands " (Pref. v.), and accordingly they are all included in one and the same list arranged all together according to their natural orders, f The histories of British Birds previously published had tacitly proceeded upon the same principle. The late Mr. Newman, however, in the Preface to his edition of Montagu's Ornithological Dictionary (Lond. 1866), strongly disapproves of the method employed by his predecessors. He considers that a great number of these species now added (since the time of Montagu), have " not the slightest claim to the title of British Birds,'' and that the records of these birds from a purely scientific point of view, "are utterly worthless." " The time seems to have arrived,'' I am reminded that my designation )- A table is prefixed, dividing the birds of " Ibis List " is not accurate, it should (numerically only) into four categories, have been referred to as " List of Srit. (1.) Residents. (2.) Summer Visitors. Birds compiled by a Committee of the (3). Winter Visitors. (4). Occasional British Ornithological Union." Visitors. h...Read More