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collaborated with us in the preparation of this report, our 
information with regard to the English counties is, with a few 
exceptions, fairly complete. From Wales we have but few 
returns, and our reports from Scotland and Ireland are quite 
insufficient material on which to base any general conclusions. 
It is satisfactory to be able to state that although locally 
some species have altogether disappeared, there is no reason 
to believe that any of our resident birds has been exterminated. 
There are several significant records of the re-appearance 
of species in 1918 in districts from which they were entirely 
absent in 1917, but it will be several years before some of 
those birds which suffered most severely can possibly recover 
themselves, or return to their original status. ; 
In arranging records we have decided, for the sake of 
convenience, to arrange the records under Counties and to 
group them in the twelve Watsonian Provinces. These 
Provinces are, of course, purely arbitrary, and do not coincide 
with the results obtained by the more natural system of 
defining the limits of each faunal area by the water-partings, 
adopted by Messrs. Harvie-Brown and Buckley, for Scotland, 
but have been adopted for convenience in classifying the 
records. Where a full report on the status of each resident 
species has been received the letter (R) follows the name of 
the recorder. 
Province: I. PENINSULA.— 
Cornwall: (Cf. H. M. Wallis, British Birds, X., p. 267) ; 
Devon: C. Collier (Culmstock), A. H. Machell Cox 
(Plymouth), W. W. White (Budleigh Salterton), G. 
Tickner (Tiverton); Somerset: D. J. Wiglesworth 
(Mendip, etc.), S. Lewis (Mid and East), R. H. Read 
(S. Cadbury). 
II. CoanneL.— 
Wilts: Rev. D. P. Harrison (Swindon) ; Dorset: W. J. 
Ashford (Poole), Dr. F. Penrose (Swanage R), Rev. F. L. 
Blathwayt (Osmond Melbury); Hants: Miss B. E. 
Stilwell (Yateley), R. E. Coles (New Forest), F. E. Blagg 
(Petersfield), Dr. J. H. Salter (Ringwood), J. M. Goodall 
(I. of Wight); Sussex: H. G. Attlee (Hastings), Col. 
H. W. Feilden (Burwash), R. Ware (Frant). 
Jil, Taames.— 
Kent: H. G. Alexander (Tonbridge R), Miss M. Klein- 
wort (Maidstone), E.G. B. Meade Waldo (Hever), Col. R. 
H. Rattray (Tonbridge R), P. F. Bunyard (Cf. Bull. B.0.C. 
XXXVIIL., p. 20 R) ; Surrey : J. B. Crosfield (Reigate R), 
London N. H. Soc. (per Hon. Sec.) C. W. Colthrup 
