^)^t girbs of Bristol ^islritt. 
TWENTY-FIVE years ago a list of the Birds of the 
Bristol District was made by Mr. E. Wheeler, and 
published in the Proceedings of the Society. Since then it 
has become possible to add a good many species to the list, 
and so an Ornithological Section was formed with the object 
of making it complete up to the present date. The new list 
differs from the old in man}'' points, but we are anxious that 
Mr. Wheeler's work should receive due acknowledgment. 
In preparing such a list we should wish, in the first place, 
to give an account of those species which are to be found in 
the country immediately surrounding the city ; for it is that 
country with which we feel more competent to deal. There 
are, however, many rarer species which have occurred at no 
great distance from the city ; and we thought that these 
should properly be included in the list. For this reason we 
have gone rather further afield, and have included species 
whose occurrence has been recorded within the district of 
which the following are roughly the boundaries : — on the 
north, a line drawn eastwards from Aust Cliff to the bound- 
ary of the county of Gloucester, near Badminton ; on the 
east, a line drawn from Badminton to Wells so as to include 
Bath ; on the south, the River Axe ; on the west, that part 
of the coast-line of the Bristol Channel which stretches from 
the mouth of the Axe to Aust Cliff. 
The district nowhere extends more than 15 miles from the 
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