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INTRODUCTION. 
has passed through several editions, and is still the most 
complete work on that district ; the list of birds therein is 
fairly reliable. 
Sir Richard Worsley was Governor of the Isle of 
Wight from 1780 to 1787 ; he wrote a history of the island, 
which contains copies of some quaint documents relating 
to some of the birds found there. 
Charlotte M. Yonge was a great lover of birds ; her 
" Old Woman's Outlook " contains frequent references to 
them ; in "John Keble's Parishes" (1898), she gives a list 
of those observed at Hursley and Otterbourne. She lived 
at Otterbourne for the whole of her long life. 
This book may be considered as a development of the 
" Briefly Annotated List of the Birds of Hampshire," pub- 
lished by the Rev. J. E. Kelsall in 1890, in the Proceedings 
of the Hampshire Field Club, to which a supplement was 
added in the Proceedings of 1898. This remained the 
standard county list until the publication of the " Victoria 
History of Hants" in 1900. There seems to have been no 
serious error in the Field Club List, excepting the rash 
assumption that the Alresford where the Fieldfare nested 
was our Alresford. 
CORRESPONDENTS. 
We are much indebted to the following friends and 
correspondents, whose courteous and ready communication 
of valuable jDarticulars added greatly to the completeness 
of our work and to the pleasure we received in compiling it. 
The Hon. A. H. Baring, The Grange, Alresford. 
Mrs. Barker-Mill, Mottisfont Abbey, Mottisfont. 
Mr. E. J. Barton, Brading, Isle of Wight. 
