The Food of Some British Wild Birds. 



CHAPTER V. 



LIST OF BIRDS EXAMINED. 



" The economic value of birds must be considered from all 

 points of view in a very broad spirit." 



F. V. THEOBALD (109, p. 20). 



No useful purpose would be served in detailing the stomach 

 contents of the different specimens of each species examined, for 

 some I have given these particulars elsewhere and some further 

 ones are included here, but it is important that the reader should 

 have some data provided in order to indicate upon what the present 

 study has been founded. I therefore give below : 



1. A list of the various species examined. 



2. The number of each species. 



3. Where nestlings have been examined and numbers. 



4. Where faeces or pellets have been examined. 



