PREFACE TO FORMER ISSUE. 
HAVING for many years been in 
the habit of jotting down the occur- 
rence of the rarer British birds in 
this county, as the reports have 
reached me from time to time, and 
as no list of the birds of this 
county has hitherto been published, 
I determined, at the suggestion of 
a few friends, to bring out the 
same in a series of papers, which 
have appeared accordingly in ‘ The 
Zoologist.’ 
Owing to the favourable recep- 
tion accorded to the above by some 
of our leading ornithologists, I have 
thought it desirable to reprint the 
