PREFACE. 



THOUGH perhaps not possessing the interest to 

 the ornithologist which Lundy Island (the only 

 breeding-place of the Gannet in the South-West of 

 England) or the Scilly Islands possess, or being 

 able to produce the long list of birds which the 

 indefatigable Mr. Giietke has been able to do for his 

 little island, Heligoland, the avifauna of Guernsey 

 and the neighbouring islands is by no means 

 devoid of interest ; and as little has hitherto been 

 published about the Birds of Guernsey and the 

 neighbouring islands, except in a few occasional 

 papers published by Miss C. B. Carey, Mr. Harvie 

 Browne, myself, and a few others, in the pages of 

 the ' Zoologist,' I make no excuse for publishing 

 this list of the birds, which, as an occasional visitor 

 to the Channel Islands for now some thirty years, 

 have in some way been brought to my notice as 

 occurring in these Islands either as residents, 

 migrants, or occasional visitants. 



Channel Island specimens of several of the rarer 

 birds mentioned, as well as of the commoner ones, 



