PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION, 



The First Edition having been exhausted very soon 

 after its appearance in 1885, and several species having 

 since been added to the Lancashire hst, I accepted the 

 task (in the absence of Mr. Mitchell from England) of 

 preparing a Second Edition, as far as practicable, up to 

 date. I should have preferred that this had devolved 

 upon some ornithologist who was personally connected 

 with the count}', but my deficiencies in this respect 

 have, I trust, l)een remedied by the cordial assistance 

 of Mr. E. J. Howard of Blackburn, whose name appears 

 on the title-page, and whose valuable notes will be 

 found throughout the work. To him also we owe 

 some recent details from Messrs. "W. Fitzherbert Brock- 

 holes, Hugh P. Hornby, and others. Again, my thanks 

 are due to Messrs. Frank Nicholson and C. F. Archi- 

 bald ; and especially to the Piev. H. A. Macpherson, of 

 Carlisle, who generously placed at my disposal the proof- 

 sheets of his " Fauna of Lakeland," in which there is 

 some important information respecting the outlying 

 district of Furness. My own share has been chiefly 

 editorial, and in this connection my labours have been 



