PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. 
THE First Edition, consisting of rather more than 3,000 copies, 
was completed in November 1889, and exhausted early in 1897. 
The species which were then considered as British numbered 367, 
but in this Second Edition the total has been raised to 384; the 
additions (with illustrations) being the Subalpine Warbler, Pallas’s 
Willow-Warbler, Greenish Willow-Warbler, Radde’s Bush-Warbler, 
Melodious Warbler, Siberian Meadow-Bunting, Gyr-Falcon, Caspian 
Plover, Spotted Sandpiper, Madeiran Fork-tailed Petrel, Frigate- 
Petrel, Collared Petrel, and Black-browed Albatross; a new cut and 
description of the Little Dusky Shearwater are substituted for those of 
Puffinus obscurus; and the Rufous Turtle-Dove, Siberian Pectoral 
Sandpiper, Yellow-legged Herring-Gull, and Levantine Shearwater are 
also added, although they are not figured, because of their close re- 
semblance to species already illustrated. In the case of many of the 
species named in the first list, the identical British specimens have 
been portrayed by Mr. G. E. Lodge, who has also furnished new 
illustrations of the Yellow-browed Warbler, Icterine Warbler, Reed- 
Warbler and nest, Marsh-Warbler and nest, Red-throated Pipit, 
Short-eared Owl, Tawny Owl, Little Owl, Golden Eagle, Honey- 
Buzzard, Peregrine Falcon, Hobby, Red-footed Falcon, Osprey, 
Little Bittern, Mallard, Black-headed Gull, White-billed Northern 
Diver, Black-throated Diver and Red-throated Diver. 
Of the 384 species now described, those which have bred within 
the United Kingdom during the present century may be taken as 
199 (if the extinct Great Auk is included); about 74 non- 
breeding wanderers have occurred fewt®than six times, and 66 
others are more or less infrequent visitors; while 45 species 
annually make their appearance on migration or during the colder 
months, in some portion of our long, narrow group of islands or upon 
the surrounding waters. 
It is hoped that the three coloured Maps will be useful for 
reference, especially to the traveller. The first of these shows the 
