APPENDIX. 151 



Circumstances seeming to make it desirable that this part 

 of the work should be compiled by myself, I have endeavoured 

 to render it as complete as possible, by incorporating all the re- 

 cords made by my respected friend and relative with the more 

 recent observations obligingly supplied by Mr. Salmon, whose 

 acquirements as an ornithologist are well known and justly ap- 

 preciated by his fellow naturalists. 



I have obtained some additional information from Mr. Staf- 

 ford, gleaned a few paragraphs from the ' Zoologist,' and added 

 one or two observations of my own. The arrangement is also 

 somewhat altered from that usually adopted, as I considered a 

 purely scientific arrangement, revealing so imperfectly the his- 

 tory of the birds enumerated, insufficient for my purpose. 

 For the same reason I have employed English in preference 

 to Latin names, as the information which I wish to diffuse is 

 designed for the general reader rather than the man of science. 

 I propose dividing the birds which have been observed in the 

 neighbourhood into five groups, distinguished solely by the cer- 

 tainty, duration, season, or uncertainty of their stay. These 

 groups I shall call 



Resident Natives. 

 Migrant Natives. 

 Winter Visitors. 

 Passing Visitors. 

 Occasional Visitors. 



1. Resident Natives. 



These birds not only nest in the immediate neighbourhood of 

 Godalming, but remain there throughout the year, the food 

 on which they live being procurable in winter as well as sum- 

 mer, and therefore their existence during frost not being contin- 

 gent on a southward migration. They are fifty-seven in number, 

 and of these it has been ascertained that several experience an 

 increase or diminution in their number at the usual periods of 

 vernal and autumnal migration. It seems scarcely necessary to 



