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BIBLIOGRAPHY: 



Papers and records published with respect to the Natural History and 

 Physical Features of the North of England. 



BIRDS, 1886. 



The present instalment includes, in addition to the titles for 1886, 

 such as have been overlooked for 1884 and 1885, and also those of 

 papers published in the first two volumes of this journal which had 

 been designedly omitted in former instalments. The present one 

 thus brings the bibliography down to date in the complete form 

 which it is designed to assume for the future. 



A word or two here will not be out of place in explanation of 

 the plan adopted in giving the gist of each article. Important 

 articles are dealt with very briefly, and long lists are summarised in 

 a statement of the total number of species dealt with. With regard 

 to short notes, however, and those dealing with but a limited number 

 of species, it seems essential to enumerate all the species mentioned, 

 whether common or not, as the province of this series of biblio- 

 graphies is not so much to indicate such articles as are important as 

 it is to aim at completeness, and to give withal such indication of 

 the contents of each note as will enable the reader to form his own 

 judgment as to its importance. 



Sporting notes do not find a place here, unless involving a 

 natural history fact of interest ; and it will here suffice to refer 

 readers to the columns of the ' Field,' ' Land and Water,' and other 

 sporting papers, for information as to bags of grouse and other game. 



The scientific names used are in accordance with the B,O.U. 

 list of British Birds, with spelling corrected to accord with the law 

 of priority in nomenclature. 



An. i.\. [Editor of Naturalist]. York N.W., York S.E., York N.E.,York S.W. 



[Duck Decoys in Yorkshire enumerated]. Nat., Sep. 1884, p. 44. 



Anon, [signed J. W.]. Northumberland S. 



Pied Flycatcher [Muscicafa atricapilla] breeding in Northumberland [at 

 Ridley Hall, Bardon Mill]. Field, June 13th, 1885, p. 792. 



Anon. [Editor of Naturalist]. York S.E. 



The Yorkshire [Spurn] Example of the Rustic Bunting \\Emberiza 

 rustica) ; is now in the York Museum]. Nat., Nov. 1SS5, p. 364. 



Anon, [not signed]. Isle of Man. 



The [Manx] Legend of the Lhondoo and the Ushag-Reaisht, or the 



Blackbird and the Mountain- Plover \Turdus merula and ?]. Manx 



Note-Book, No. 5, Jan. 1886, ii. 37. 



May 1889. K 



