INTEODUCTIOX. XV 



A locality in Devon for the Dartford Warbler (p. 16) is, or 

 was, Bickleigh Vale, near Plymouth (Moore, Trans. Plym. 

 Tnst. 1830, p. 304) ; ditto, in Oxfordshire, Stonwood Beckley 

 (' Zoologist/ 1849, p. 2597) ; ditto, in Leicestershire, Melton 

 Mowbray (Harley, /. c.) ; ditto, in Derbyshire, Melbourne 

 Common (Briggs, ' Zoologist, 1849, p. 2486). The Fire- 

 crested Wren (p. 19) is unknown in Ireland. For a note on 

 the habits of the Crested Titmouse (p. 20) as observed in 

 Scotland, cf. Saxby, ' Zoologist/ 1862, p. 7998. Its acci- 

 dental occurrence in Yorkshire is confirmed, ' Zoologist/ 

 1872, p. 3021. Major Irby says this bird is resident and 

 very common in the cork woods of Almoraima, ten miles from 

 Gibraltar, and found in all the districts in the vicinity where 

 there are any cork-trees, in which they nest. As it also breeds 

 annually in Scotland, there can be nothing so remarkable in 

 its occasional occurrence in England as some would have us 

 believe. As in the case of the Long-tailed Titmouse (p. 21), 

 the Coal Titmouse of Great Britain has been found to differ 

 slightly in some respects from the continental form of the 

 species, which is the true Parus ater of Linnaeus ; and Messrs. 

 Sharpe and Dresser have accordingly separated it under the 

 name of P. britannicus (cf. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser., viii. 

 p. 437). A good account of the habits of the Long-tailed 

 Titmouse (p. 22) by Mr. Blyth is given (Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 1837, p. 199) . Localities in Devon for the Bearded Titmouse 

 (p. 22) were formerly Topsham and Thorverton, on the Exe 

 (Moore, 1. c.). The visits of Richard's Pipit (p. 24) to 

 Great Britain have hitherto been confined to England. The 

 Girl Bunting (p. 26), which is chiefly restricted to the south 

 of England, has been met with in Leicestershire (cf. Harley, 

 " List Birds Leicester.," in vol. iii. of Macgillivray's Hist. 

 Brit. Birds). 



The Tree Sparrow (p. 28) is plentiful in some parts of the 



