PREFACE. Vll 



Further notes, supplementing those in the body of the 

 work, upon the Marsh Warbler, Grey Wagtail, Girl Bunting, 

 Tree Sparrow, House Sparrow, Hawfinch, Lesser Redpole, 

 Grossbill, Cuckoo, Wryneck, Turtle Dove, Woodcock, and 

 Redshank will be found in the addenda. 



No system of classification has been introduced, it being 

 deemed unnecessary in a work of this nature. In the 

 sequence of species I have followed the arrangement in the 

 foui-th edition of Yarrell's History of British Birds, which 

 is perhaps more generally known among British Ornitholo- 

 gists than any other work ; and for the same reason I have 

 also, without exception, adopted the generic and specific 

 names used in that work. 



O. V. A. 



Bloxham, Oxon. 



May yd, i8 



