6 * LOCAL LISTS OF BRITISH BIRDS. 
be as well to point out those which have received least, and 
which, therefore, chiefly require that sqme local observer 
should undertake the work of setting forth ‘the main peculiari- © 
ties of their avi-fauna. Taking England first, the list 
shows that not a single contribution has yet (so far as I 
know) appeared in relation to the county of Monmouth, which 
is, therefore, obviously in want of some attention from 
local ornithologists. The following counties, though they have 
not altogether escaped attention, have had their ornithological 
features most inadequately treated :—Bedfordshire, Cheshire, 
Derbyshire, Huntingdonshire, and Surrey; while Hertford- 
shire, Lincolnshire, and Staffordshire, without being quite 
so badly off, still stand in need of more attention than 
they have yet received. ‘Turning to Scotland, one may note 
that the birds of many districts have been very carefully 
studied by several different observers, while Gray’s Birds of 
the West of Scotland, the works of Col. Drummond Hay, 
Messrs. Harvie-Brown, Buckley, and of some others, are models 
of their kind. Nevertheless, there are comparatively few 
Scotch counties which have received the attention in the way 
of separate and often bulky works on their birds which many 
English counties have received, and a good deal of local work 
still remains to be done. The twelve Welsh counties have 
scarcely received any attention at all, only two having been 
anything like adequately treated, namely, Breconshire and 
Pembrokeshire. Ireland as a whole has been thoroughly 
treated in Thompson’s well-known work, there being in addition 
several good lists of Irish birds; but in the way of local lists, 
very little indeed has as yet appeared, there not being a single 
county which has had its birds described in a separate volume 
entirely devoted to the subject, as in the case of many English 
and some Scotch counties. It appears, therefore, that some 
work still remains to be done, especially in Wales and Ireland, 
before we can claim to have a complete and detailed know- 
ledge of the distribution of the Birds of the whole of the British 
Islands. 
I have to acknowledge the kind assistance which I have 
received during the compilation of this list from the Rey. 
H. A. Macpherson, the Rev. J. H. Kelsall, Messrs. Oliver V. Aplin, 
Edward Bidwell, J. J. Dalgleish, J. H. Gurney, J. H. Harting, 
