DUTCH AND ENGLISH BIRDS, 183 
NOTE XXIX. 
COMPARATIVE LIST OF THE BIRDS OF HOLLAND 
AND ENGLAND. 
BY 
F. E. BLAAUW. 
Secretary Zool. Soc. of Amsterdam, C. M. Z.S., M. B. O. U. 
In the following paper a list as possible complete 
is given of the birds of Holland and England, whilst 
a few lines are added to each species, to state when and 
where the birds occur in both countries. 
It is worth of being noticed that, although Holland and 
England are so near each other, a great difference takes 
place in the habits of the same birds visiting both coun- 
tries so that f. 1. a number of birds being residents in 
England are only summer visitors in Holland. 
Not less interesting is the fact that Holland, although 
so much smaller than the United Kingdom, is the regular 
abode at different seasons of 221 species of birds whilst 
the British Islands can only boast of 211 species (L. of Br. 
Birds, preface VI, 1883). 
The occasional visitors, it is true, increase the British 
Avifauna with a considerable number of species, but as the 
regular visitors and residents form the real Avifauna of 
a country, the fact remains that Holland is the richer of 
the two. 
Birds only occurring in England and not met with in 
Holland are simply mentioned and the names placed in 
INotes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XV. 
