CHAPTER XII 



STATIONARY SPECIES 



The compilation of an analysis such as this should occupy 

 infinitely more time than the few hours that the author 

 has been able to allot to it. Yet, though incomplete 

 and extemporaneous, it may serve to emphasise the point 

 so often put forward- — as to the universality of the 

 migratory impulse in birds. 



There are included in the British list, some 400 

 species. In his Catalogue of the Birds of Northumber- 

 land and Durham, Mr Hancock enumerated 265 ; so 

 that (allowing for accidental stragglers) the feathered 

 population of the Borderland may roughly be estimated 

 as not far short of 200 species of birds. 



And of all this number, I have not been able to 

 count, as absolute residents, more than fourteen land- 

 birds ; while of eighteen other species, there co-exist 

 both a resident and a migratory race. Put it thus : — 



Species 

 r. Birds absolutely stationary 14 



2. Birds which, although stationary, have yet a migrant- 



complement 18 



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3. Leaving the number of regular migrants 170 



Total, say 202 



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