584 
The Birds of the Barnsley District. — The birds 
found in this locality will generally occur throughout the 
south-west part of Yorkshire, known, geologically, as the 
Yorkshire Coal Formation, extending in a series of well- 
wooded undulations, from the magnesian limestone range, at 
near 300 feet elevation, to the great back-bone range of 
Millstone Grit, at a height of 1,700 feet above the level of 
the sea. Barnsley is near the centre, at a height of 390 
feet, while the heights immediately overlooking it are 550 
feet in elevation, there being a regular increase of height in a 
western direction. The birds then, may be expected to typify 
the district, being equally removed from the level regions, 
beyond the limestone range, where birds of the marsh and 
sea mingle largely, and the sub-alpine regions where the 
moorland birds predominate. With great variety of situa- 
tion — fruitful fields, valley streams, sedgy pools, patches of 
gorse and heath, fine parks, and abounding woodlands, we 
have a good variety of birds, and should have many more, 
and more thickly distributed, if half as much pains were 
taken in preserving, after the manner of Waterton, as in 
destroying rare birds. This question is worthy of being 
taken up by scientific men, since all true naturalists will 
admit that there is more satisfaction in studying living objects 
than dead representations ; and the chief of slaughterers, 
Macgillivray, confesses that all zoological collectors destroy 
ten times more specimens than they require. Of the summer 
warblers, we have all the truly British species, except the 
Dartford Warbler and the Reed Warbler ; the latter is 
stated by Neville Wood to occur in the adjoining county of 
Derby. The times of their arrival in the district specified, 
as recorded in these notes, may be generally depended upon, 
except those kinds that are thinly distributed, as the 
Nightingale, of whose delightful melody the public are 
defrauded by the bird-catchers, as bad in their way as the 
