272 DISTRIBUTION OF THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK. 



Shrike and the Black -breasted Dipper be counted as in the 

 B. 0. IT. List, as distinct species, the number would be 

 raised to 294. Making every allowance for omissions and 

 errors in excess, no one can doubt that the ornithology of 

 Suffolk can show a very strong list of birds, little, if at all, 

 inferior to that of any other county, the avifauna of which 

 has been well investigated, Yorkshire only excepted. 

 Comparisons are proverbially odious, but still it is interesting 

 to give the estimates which have been made by competent 

 hands of the number of birds known in other counties. Messrs. 

 W. E. Clarke and W. D. Eoebuck in 1881 enumerate 307 

 species in Yorkshire. Mr. Stevenson in 1883, in White's 

 Gazetteer of Norfolk, estimates the birds of Norfolk at 293; 

 Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., writing in 1884, in Mason's Norfolk, 

 sets them down at 285, omitting the doubtful cases. Mr. 

 Harting, in 1880, in his introduction to Eodd's Birds of 

 Cornwall, estimates the birds of Cornwall at 290. The 

 birds of the Humber district, a well defined zoological 

 province comprising parts of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, 

 are estimated by Mr. Cordeaux, writing in 1872, at 276, 

 besides five included in an Appendix. Mr. Hancock in 

 1874 counts the birds of Northumberland and Durham 

 united as 266. Messrs. Macpherson and Duckworth in 

 1886 reckon 250 birds for Cumberland. Mr. Mitchell, 

 in 1885, counts 256 birds for Lancashire. Mr. Knox, 

 in his systematic Catalogue of the Birds of Sussex (1865, 

 3rd Ed.), enumerates 248 species as found in that county.* 

 Mr. Harting, in 1866, estimates the birds of Middlesex at 

 225. Mr. A. W. M. Clark-Kennedy, in 1868, reckons the 

 birds of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire combined to be 225. 

 Mr. Cecil Smith in 1869 sets down the birds of Somerset- 

 shire at 216. The late Dr. Saxby counted the birds of the 

 Shetland Islands to be 202, including about half a dozen 

 doubtful cases ; his book was edited by his brother, the 

 Rev. S. H. Saxby, in 1874. Mr. Montagu Browne is pub- 



* Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., informs me and others, and that their number now 

 that other birds have since been added to probably amounts to about 270. 

 the Sussex list, by Mr. Monk of Lewes 



