88; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION 



Of the fifteen species whose breeding range is subarctic only, 

 more than half breed in our Islands : 



Loxia curvirostra. 

 Fuligula cristata. 

 Fuligula ruftna. 

 Scolopax rusticola. 

 Scolopax gallinago. 

 Fringilla spinus. 

 Tetrao tetrix. 

 Anas circia. 

 Numenius arquata. 

 Regulus cristatus. 

 JJarus ridibundus. 

 Totanus ochropus. 

 Fringilla montifringilla. 

 ^ Larus minutus. 

 Acredula caudata. 



Of the forty-nine species which are both subarctic and sub- 

 tropic in their breeding range, no fewer than thirty-seven breed in 

 our Islands, and of these twenty-nine may be regarded as residents. 

 Nearly half of this group of species belong to the Passeres : 



S'Ma ccesia. 

 Cinclus aquaticus. 

 Garrulus glandarius. 

 Passer montanus. 

 Passer domesticus. 

 Coccothraustes mdgaris. 

 Corvus corone. 

 Picus minor. 

 Haliaetus albicilla. 

 Accipiter nisus. 

 Motacilla boarula. 

 Pyrrhula mdgaris. 

 Troglodytes parvidus. 

 Parus major. 

 Columba lima. 

 Strix aluco. 

 Picus major. 



