1 NOTES ON BIRDS OF NEIGHBOURING DISTRICTS 
NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF NEIGHBOURING 
DISTRICTS. 
For comparison notes have been added on the status of 
the respective species in these districts of the surrounding 
countries, whose coasts most nearly approach our island, 
and also on the outer groups of Scottish islands. The 
references to north-west England are mainly from the late 
Rev. H. A. Macpherson’s Birds of Lakeland, and Mitchell’s 
Birds of Lancashire ; the Welsh from the papers of Messrs. 
Aplin and Coward and Oldham,’ contributed to the 
Zoologist ; those to Galloway from the articles of Mr. R. 
Service, and Gray and Anderson’s Birds of Ayrshire and 
Wigtownshire.” The Irish information is largely drawn 
from Messrs. Ussher and Warren’s Birds of Ireland, and 
the article in the Belfast Naturalists’ Field Club’s Guide ; 
that for the isles from the recent volumes of Messrs. 
Buckley and Harvie-Brown on the faunas of the Orkneys 
and Outer Hebrides, and Buckley and Evans on the fauna 
of Shetland. 
These notes, it is hoped, may assist in appreciating the 
value to be attached to the position of a bird in the Manx 
list. 
1 Mr. Oldham was good enough to send me notes, not here published, of 
ornithological researches by Mr. Coward and himself in Anglesea in 1904, 
North Wales is only now being thoroughly investigated. 
2 Notices of the ornithology of Wigtownshire are somewhat meagre and out of 
date. 
