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the Barred Warbler, the Lanceolated Warbler, the Yellow- 
browed Warbler, and the Red-breasted Flycatcher, to mention 
only a few. 
Mr. Cordeaux’s Birds of the Humber District is one of our 
ornithological classics—a work worthy of the county and of him 
who wrote it. 
There is much detailed information on Lincolnshire Birds, 
but very few Lists beyond the late Mr. Brogden’s for the South 
Lincolnshire Fenland (Nat., Jan. 1900, pp. 17-32), and not so 
much attention has been paid to the inland avifauna as com- 
pared with that of the more attractive coast-line. The Rev. F. 
L. Blathwayt has of late published various interesting papers 
dealing with the neighbourhood of Lincoln. 
An interesting item of Lincolnshire Ornithology is that 
portion of Drayton’s Polyolbion which deals in vigorous and 
resounding rhyme with the birds of Lincolnshire and the fens, 
and carries us back in imagination to the time before the 
drainage of the fens and the development of agriculture, when 
the county was a veritable paradise for wild fowl, to the days 
_ when the Bittern and the Dotterel and the Ruff and the Avocet, 
and many such other species now gone, were common residents 
with us, and when the Great Bustard roamed unrestrained over 
the Wolds. 
Apart from field-work, there is much to be done in working 
out the Lincolnshire ornithology, and, before it becomes too 
late, to trace out the history of the Great Bustard, of the great 
Gulleries, and of the Decoys which formerly existed in numerous 
_ places. 
The Mammalia of the: County never found one to write a 
list until our Secretary, Mr. Smith, gathered up the threads and 
wrote in 1905 a most excellent and full enumeration of the 
-hearly fifty species known (Nat., February 1905, pp. 45-49). 
The work that now remains to be accomplished is that of 
working out the local distribution of the species, investigating 
the credentials of some of the older records, and collecting the 
smaller and more critical species. 
