Bird Life in a Suburban Parish 



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re_i>ul;ir \isit<)i's at one season or tlie otlier, witliout taking 

 into account those accidental occurrences which liappen 

 from time to time. For such an event as tlie pickino- 

 up of an exhausted IV'trel or other pehigic s])ecies in an 

 inlaiui locahty seems to me to l)e cpiite devoid of any 

 more than a passing interest, and to have no ornitliological 

 imj)ortance Avliatever. Tlie particular county in whicli the 

 storm-ch-i\en wanderer happened to fall has no real claim 

 to consider it as an inhabitant, although our l?ritish and 

 county lists of species are, as a matter of fact, artificially 

 swelled by the inclusion of many such cases. 



"Sly idea in compiling these notes is not so much to 



IS'est of WniNCHAT {F>(i/i iioila nibctra). 



