94 A HANDBOOK FOR SOUTHPORT. 



The following list of the Southport birds includes all the 

 names mentioned in the original edition of this little volume. 

 They were inserted, almost wholly, upon the authority of 

 two excellent practical men, the late Mr. Graves, and the late 

 Mr. Tyrer. The frequency of the occurrence, at the present 

 day, of various species, will, no doubt, be found less by new 

 observers than it was twenty years ago. It shows, in any 

 case, that the time was when Southport could lay claim to 

 knowledge of no fewer than a hundred and thirty representa- 

 tives of the ornithological department of nature ; and, though 

 they may now be rare, what kinds of birds may reasonably be 

 expected to show themselves. 



In this new catalogue, the names are re-arranged into two 

 out of the three great classes above indicated, viz., Birds 

 permanently residing in Britain, and Visitors, coming regularly 

 from foreign countries. The Southport " Casuals " (all 

 accounted British) are marked with an * 



To facilitate the studies of persons interested in ornitho- 

 logy, reference is made after every name, to the coloured 

 drawing in Rev. F. O. Morris's " British Birds/' six volumes, 

 8vo, the first dated 1863. The numbers of the plates, as 

 here given, presume them to be consecutive from plate i in 

 vol. i, to plate 358 in vol. 6. 



BIRDS PERMANENTLY RESIDING IN BRITAIN. 



The Kestrel (Falco Tinnunculus). Morris, vol. i, pi. 17. 

 Abundant upon the sandhills, where it may be readily 

 distinguished, when upon the wing, by hovering over its prey. 



* The Merlin (Falco ^Esalon).^Q\. i, pi. 16. 



The Sparrow-hawk (Acdpiter fringil/arius). Vol. i, pi. 19. 



