YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS^ UNION 

 EDITORIAL. 



In the present work the Yorkshire NaturaHsts' Union 

 has completed still another county monograph, the " Birds 

 of Yorkshire." In the first part of the Union's Transactions, 

 published so long ago as 1877, Mr. W. Eagle Clarke, the 

 Secretary of the Vertebrate Section, gave the first part 

 of a monograph of the avifauna of the county. Subsequent 

 Transactions contained further instalments. It was found, 

 however, that to publish the work piecemeal would be 

 very unsatisfactory, and eventually it was decided to com- 

 mence de novo. Mr. Eagle Clarke having left the county, 

 Mr. T. H. Nelson kindly undertook the task of preparing 

 the work for the press, and the Union is indebted to 

 him for the way in which he has done the work. For this 

 purpose the whole of the MS. and lists in the possession of 

 Messrs. Eagle Clarke and Roebuck were handed over to him, 

 and Mr. F. Boyes has also greatly assisted by supplying 

 many notes on East Yorkshire birds. 



Record should here be made of the generous way in which 

 Messrs. A. Brown & Sons, Ltd., have met the Union with 

 regard to the publication of the work, and of the care they 

 have taken in connection with its production. 



T. Sheppard, F.G.S., 



Hon. Secretary. 



The Museum, Hull, 

 June ^oth, 1907. 



