THE ZOOLOGIST 



No. 781.— July, 1906. 



THE BIRDS OF SCILLY. 



By James Clark, M.A., D.Sc, and Francis R. Rodd, J.P. 



(Plate III.) 



Though the peculiar geographical position of the Isles of Scilly 

 makes them one of the most important ornithological centres of 

 the west, the literature of the bird-life there is remarkably scanty. 

 Accidental visitors have from time to time received due recog- 

 nition in the pages of ' The Zoologist ' and elsewhere, but, with 

 the exception of a short appendix to Rodd's ' Birds of Cornwall, ' 

 and a compilation by the Rev. R. W. Smart in the ' Trans- 

 actions ' of the Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian 

 Society for 1885, no general account has yet been published of 

 the birds of these islands. 



The material for the following annotated list has been drawn 

 from various sources. Mr. Augustus Pechell visited the islands 

 every year during the autumn or winter from 1849 to 1870, and 

 the rare Scillonian birds obtained by him were sent direct to the 

 late Mr. E. H. Rodd, and, with few exceptions, are still in the 

 Rodd collection at Trebartha. Mr. F. R. Rodd paid five lengthy 

 visits to Scilly during the shooting season between 1859 and 

 1870, and not only sent birds and frequent ornithological notes 

 to his uncle Mr. E. H. Rodd, but during the last three months of 

 1870 kept a bird diary there, that was afterwards published in 

 The Zoologist.' In 1863 he drew up an annotated list of 

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