vi Among the Birds in Northern Shires. 



bird-lore astray; due allowance has to be made in many 

 cases for this difference in latitude, and all that it involves. 

 The present volume, then, to a great extent a study of 

 ornithological comparisons, will, we trust, be of some service 

 to the bird lover or the bird student in his task of making 

 allowances. 



Unquestionably these northern shires from an ornitho- 

 logical point of view are much more interesting than the 

 southern, and especially the south-western counties. Their 

 avifauna is richer, and presents far greater variety, notably 

 during the breeding season; whilst the marvellous pheno- 

 menon of Migration there unfolds itself each season in a 

 manner that is never remarked elsewhere. 



' CHARLES DIXON. 



Paignton, S. Devon. 



