PREFACE. V 



does not appear to have taken much tronl)le to 

 sift the evidence given to him. Professor Ansted 

 himself states that his Hst is necessarily imperfect, 

 as he received little or no information from some 

 of the Islands ; in fact, Guernsey and Sark appear 

 to be the onl}^ two from which much information 

 had been received. This is to be regretted, as it 

 has made the notice of the distribution of the various 

 birds through the Islands, which he has denoted 

 by the letters a, c, i, o, u,* appended to the name of 

 each bird, necessarily faulty. The ornithological 

 notes, however, supplied b}^ Mr. Gallienne are of 

 considerable interest, and are generally pretty 

 reliable. It is rather remarkable, however, that 

 Professor Ansted has not always paid attention to 

 these notes in marking the distribution of the birds 

 through the various Islands. 



No doubt many of the birds included in Professor 

 Ansted' s list were included merely on the authority 

 of specimens in the museum of the Mechanics' 

 Institute, which at one time was a pretty good one ; 

 and had sufficient care been taken to label the 

 various specimens correctly as to place and date, 

 especially distinguishing local specimens from 

 foreign ones, of which there were a good mam', 

 would have been a very interesting and useful local 



'■' a Aldeniey. o Sarlc. 



e Gacnisey. u Jetliou and Heiin, 



i Jersey, 



