OF BRITISH BIRDS 6/ 



Colnmba livia. 

 Columba palumbus. 

 Columba oena&. 

 Tetrao scoticus. 

 Perdix cinerea. 

 Gallinula Moropus. 

 Fulica atra. 

 Rallus aquaticus. 

 Numenius ar quota. 

 Vandlus cristatus. 

 Charadrius hiaticida major. 

 Totanus calidris. 

 Scolopax gallinago. 

 Hccmalopus ostralcgus. 

 Botaurus stellar is. 

 Ardea cinerea. 

 Sula bassana. 

 Phcdacrocorax gracidns. 

 Phalacrocorax carbo. 

 Pujffmus anglorum. 

 Prooettaria pelagica* 

 Aka tordai. 

 Alca troile. 

 Podiceps cristatus. 

 Podiceps minor. 

 Cyynus olor. 

 Tadorna comufa. 

 Larus argentatus. 

 Larus tridactylus. 

 Larus ridibundus. 

 Larus fuscus. 

 Larus marinus. 



Some of these species are very rare or very local in Ireland, 

 such as Passer montanus', Garrulus glandarms^ and Columba cenas. 



The distribution of the other twenty-six residents may be 

 tabulated as follows. If the total number of residents be added 

 together, it will be found that Scotland heads the list with ninety- 

 eight, England follows with ninety-five, whilst Ireland has only 

 eighty-nine. It must, however, be remembered that these figures 



