INTRODUCTORY. XXlll 



Mr. W. A. Durnford's " Birds of Walney " includes 

 the country within a radius of thirty or forty miles from 

 Barrow-in-Furness ; the notes taken by the late Mr. W. 

 Pearson refer to the valley between Underbarrow Scar 

 and Cartmel Fell, and include Whitbarrow, and Lythe 

 Marsh at head of Morecambe Bay ; the 1871 " Pieport 

 of the Bury Nat. Hist. Soc." takes in almost the whole 

 of East Lancashire, and the limits assigned to the 

 contributors to the Natidrdists' Scrap Book were a 

 circuit of fifteen miles round Liverpool, with two miles 

 round Southport added, but the Flintshire coast 

 excluded. 



In addition to the above, I have received much 

 valuable information from the following gentlemen, who, 

 by the trouble they have taken in aiding me to clear up 

 many doubtful points, have placed me under great 

 obligations : — 



Rev. E. D. Banister, Whitechapel, Preston ; 

 Mr. W. E. Beckavith, Eaton Constantine, Salop ; 



,, W. FiTZHEEBEKT Brockholes, Claughton ; 



,, Arthur Breakell, Garstang; 



,, R. Drummond, Blackpool ; 



,, John Drake, Bury ; 



,, James Garnett, Clitheroe ; 



,, W. Gillett, Preston; 



,, John Hall, Nateby ; 



,, John Hancock [the late], Newcastle-on-T^-ne ; 



,, J. E. Harting, London; 



,, James Holland [the late], Middleton ; 



,, Thomas Jones, Chnrch ; 



„ Wright Johnson, Prestwich ; 



,, Eawdon B. Lee, Kendal ; 

 Lord Lilford, Oundle ; 

 Mr. Anthony Mason [the late]. Grange ; 



„ T. H. Miller, Singleton ; 



„ T. J. Moore, Liverpool ; 



,, F. Nicholson, Altrincham ; 



,, J. E. Palmer, Dublin ; 



