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Avaders of the Solway that had appeared since Mr. Heysham's 

 reports, though written in the ,same period. 



In 1882, the late Mr. W, Dickinson inserted a few notes 

 on Birds in his small work " Reminiscences of West Cumber- 

 land," privately printed. Mr. Dickinson Avas a man of many 

 talents, and his notes, though short, are worthy of their 

 author. 



Further references exist in Yarrell's British Birds, of 

 A\'hich the fourth edition is really a new A\ork ; in Mr. 

 Harting's Handbook of British Birds ; in the Zoologist, 

 Field, Morris' Natiu-alist, Loudon's Natural History Magazine, 

 Philosophical Magazine, local newspapers, and elsewhere ; all 

 necessary references to which have been incorporated in the 

 text. Valuable data relating to the physical features of the 

 county will be found in papers published in the Transactions 

 of the Cumberland and Westmorland Association, especially 

 Mr. J. Jackson's *' Notes on Inglewood Forest," and Mr. 

 Harrison's paper on Mosses. 

 MS. The only early MS. information, available, exists in 



Edmund Sandford's History of Cumberland, of which the 

 original copy exists in the archives of the Dean and Chapter 

 of Carlisle. Unfortunately, the last sheet, containing, ap- 

 parently, an account of the netting of Sea Buxls at St. Bees, 

 is imperfect in this copy. The only references to Birds in the 

 remaining MS. have been incorporated in the text. Sandford 

 was a cadet of the house of Askham. Of recent information, 

 some MS. notes kept by the late Mr. Proud were kindly lent 

 to us by his daughter, the late Mrs. Wannop, and have been 

 augmented by om- correspondence with his son, Mr. W, Proud, 

 of Chico, Butte County, California. 



Mr. J. W. Harris generously supplied an admirable list 

 of the Birds of Cumberland di-awn up by himself, thus 

 adding the Fulmar and Little Crake to the census. 



