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The Resident Natives are .... 57 



The Migrant Natives 32 



The Winter Visitors 29 



The Passing Visitors 3 



The Occasional Visitors 75 



Making a total of 196 



By extending this local list to the boundary of the county a very 

 slight addition might be made to the total number of species. 



1849. This year also produced a Systematic Catalogue of the 

 Birds of Sussex, by A. E. Knox, in which the birds are divided into 

 orders and families in accordance with the quinary system: this 

 Catalogue forms a kiud of Appendix to the same author's ' Ornith- 

 ological Rambles in Sussex,' a work written in a genial spirit, and one 

 which has passed through three editions. 



1856. A List of Birds of Banffshire, accompanied by Anecdotes, 

 by Thomas Edward, collector and dealer in Natural-History specimens 

 at Banff. An interesting list, but the writer indulges rather too freely 

 in the romantic ; this propensity has thrown some discredit on a story 

 of the breeding of the snowy owl in Banffshire, which is given on the 

 authority of fishermen who captured but did not preserve the old 

 birds, and whose names and abodes are not mentioned. 



1866. The Birds of Norfolk, by Henry Stevenson, stands de- 

 servedly at the head of all county lists, and has already been 

 abundantly noticed in these pages. 



1866. In the same year we had the 'Birds of Middlesex ; a Con- 

 tribution to the Natural History of the County,' by James Edmund 

 Harting, a work with the merits of which all my readers are familiar. 

 These various and interesting works are so many models for future 

 compilers of local lists of birds. 



Mr. Clark-Kennedy's extremely pretty volume is a continuation of 

 this series of local lists, and does the author infinite credit. It 

 enumerates among occasional visitors several birds which, I think, 

 had better have been omitted ; but I will not enforce my own opinion 

 on this subject without giving the author's own account of them. 



Great Black Woodpecker.— "In April, 1844, a great black wood- 

 pecker was seen on several consecutive days in the Home Park, 

 Windsor. The observer in this case was a Mr. Walter, whose word 

 I have no reason to doubt, and moreover he gave so accurate a de- 

 scription of the bird as to leave no room for doubt that it was a 



