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INTRODUCTION. 
pilers of county lists, particularly in matters of 
historical and antiquarian interest. 
Mr. W. H. Hudson, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., 40, St. Luke's 
Road, London, W., — has replied patiently to many 
queries. He knows our Hampshire birds well, 
and has written of them as only a poet-naturalist 
can write. 
Mr. H. G. Johnson, Winchester. 
Dr. Jolliffe, Yafford House, Shorwell, Isle of Wight. 
Mr. J. Kemp- Welch, Sopley, Christchurch. 
Mr. T. R. Knight, Wickham. 
The Hon. Gerald Lascelles, M.B.O.U., King's House, 
Lyndhurst. 
Mr. J. Hamilton Leigh, F.L.S., F.Z.S., Matcham, 
Ring wood. 
Dr. Loveless, Steepleton, Stockbridge. 
The Earl of Malmesbury, Heron Court, Christchurch, 
has kindly lent us a manuscript catalogue of his 
most interesting collection of birds, with per- 
mission to use any of the notes contained therein, 
of which we have availed ourselves largely. 
Mr. Clement Mason, Holmfield, Stubbington, near 
Fareham. 
Mr. E. G. B. Meade- Waldo, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., Stone- 
wall Park, Edenbridge, Kent, contributed a 
valuable list of birds to the "Victoria History of 
Hants," Vol. I., iqcx), from which we have quoted 
frequently, though his observations therein are 
chiefly confined to the New Forest district. 
Sir George Meyrick, Bart., Hinton Admiral, Christ- 
church. 
Mr. G. Miles-Bailey, Abbess Grange, Leckford. 
Lord Montagu of Beaulieu and his son, the Hon. J. 
