18 BIRDS OF CHESHIRE. 
changes, of which there is no chronicle whatever, have 
taken place in former times. 
In Domesday Book about a score of scattered 
localities are mentioned where there were ‘aeries of 
hawks, but it is, of course, impossible to refer any 
of these to particular species. It is also stated of a 
wood at Hantone (Hampton), that ‘In King Edward’s 
time the whole was worth v shillings. It now renders 
ii shillings and one sparrowhawk’ (sprevarvwm). 
Daniel King in his Vale-Royall of England, or the 
County Palatine of Chester, published in 1656, says 
of the Forests of Delamere and Maxfield, that :—‘ Wild- 
Foul aboundeth there in such store, as in no other 
Countrey have I seen the like; namely, Wild-Geese, 
and Wild-Ducks. Of which first sort, a man shall 
see sometimes flying, neer 200. in one flock; and 
likewise of the Ducks, 40. or 50. in a flock. And in 
other kinds also it hath like store; as Phesant, More- 
hen, Partridg, Woodcocks, Plovers, Teels, Widgins; and 
of all kind of small Birds. So hath it on the contrary 
sort, Ravens, Crows, Choughs, Kites, Gleads, and such 
like.’ In the portion of the same work that was written 
by William Webb, another description of Delamere 
Forest is given. Webb remarks that there is ‘Great 
store of Fish and Fowl in the Mears, Puits or Sea 
Mawes; in the flashes.’ 
The Natural History of Lancashire, Cheshire, and 
the Peak of Derbyshire, by Dr. Charles Leigh, was 
published in 1700. The learned doctor traverses a 
wide range of subjects, and makes sundry interesting 
statements with regard to Lancashire birds, but does 
not refer specially to those of Cheshire. 
In 1854, Mr. Isaac Byerley’s Fawna of Liverpool was 
published. He included in the Liverpool district the 
