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RECENT RECORDS FROM STAFFORDSHIRE, 

 WARWICKSHIRE AND WORCESTER. 



BY 

 Rev. F. C. R. JOURDAIN and H. F. WITHERBY. 



The study of Staffordshire ornithology presents especial 

 difficulties, as the only recent works on the birds of the county 

 are somewhat inaccessible. Dr. Macaldowie's treatise was 

 published in the Beport and Transactions of the North 

 Staffordshire Field Club for 1893, but only a few copies 

 were separately printed ; while Mr. J. R. B. Masefield's 

 paper on the birds of the county in the Victoria 

 County History, though published in 1908, was wTitten 

 some years previously, with only a brief appendix, in which 

 some of the more important later records were inserted ; 

 this work is also practically unobtainable separately, and 

 must be read in conjunction with the Reports of the N.S.F.C. 

 from 1905 onwards. Unfortunately, these zoological reports 

 do not deal with the species referred to in any scientific order, 

 so that records of each species must be searched for throughout 

 the whole series of reports. A re-arrangement of the notes 

 in scientific order would render these reports much more 

 accessible for reference and increase their value enormously.* 

 The Annual Beport and Transactions of the N.S.F.C. 

 for 1909-10 (Vol. XLIV.), which has lately been sent to us, 

 contains, in addition to Mr. Masefield's " Annual Report " 

 (Aves, pp. 67-71), and Mr. W. Wells Bladen's " Bird Notes 

 from Stone " (pp. 74-83), a long illustrated paper by 

 Mr. F. Coburn (pp. 85-128) " On the Rarer Birds of Stafford- 

 shire and their Migration across the County, with Notes 

 from adjoining Counties " {i.e., Worcester and Warwick). 

 Most of these records are from Norton Pool, Chasetown, 



* For Warwickshire the latest autliority is the late R. F. Tomes' 

 article in the Vict. Hist, of Warwickshire, Vol. I. (1904), and for 

 Worcester the same writer's list in the Vict. Hist, of Worcester (1901). 



