OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



Partial Residents. 



Summer Visitors. 



As might be expected^ there are iio summer visitors to the British 

 Islands that do not visit England. They all come from the south in 

 spring, and could scarcely reach Scotland or Ireland without passing 

 the English coast. There are 4 summer visitors which do not reach Scot- 

 land. None of these 4 reach Ireland^ and an additional species which 

 objects to cross the sea twice raises the number of summer visitors which 

 are unknown in Ireland to 5. 



There are 48 British Birds which may be regarded as Summer Visitors, 

 though in a few species some stragglers remain behind at the autumn 

 migration and spend the winter with us. 



Twenty-seven of these species are more or less common summer 

 visitors to our Islands, and five others may also be regarded as summer 



