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islands. The Barn Owl should perhaps be looked upon as 
an exception. 
The Isle of Man agrees with Ireland, and differs trom the 
opposite counties of England, in the absence or rarity of 
various small summer migrants—the Blackcap, Garden 
Warbler, Wood Warbler, Redstart, Lesser Whitethroat, 
Yellow Wagtail, Tree Pipit, of the Marsh Tit, of the Carrion 
Crow, and of Woodpeckers. The Jay should perhaps be 
another example, though it is found locally in Ireland, and 
yet another is the Tawny Owl. In estimating the value 
of this fact, however, not only the isolation of Man, but its 
small extent, and generally bare and hilly surface, must be 
borne in mind. Much of the same phenomenon, respecting 
the distribution of Warblers, may be observed on the eastern 
side of our sea, in outlying parts of Wales. 
Man agrees with Ireland (and with Scotland generally) 
in the position of the Grey Crow as a breeding species, and 
also in that of that characteristic Irish ard Hebridean 
resident, the Black Guillemot. 
It agrees with England and differs from Scotland and 
Ireland in the status of the Common Gull. 
Such species as in Britain find their headquarters in its 
eastern districts, or on its eastern coasts, are naturally ill 
represented here. 
Man is rich in rock-breeding coast birds, but rather 
lacking in shore-frequenting waders. Its mountains fail 
entirely or are poorly furnished with species nesting on 
moorlands and hill streams, as the Ring Ouzel, Common 
Sandpiper, Grey Wagtail, Dipper, Curlew, Dunlin, and 
Golden Plover. 
Few species rare as British have been recorded in Man. 
Among the less common which have occurred with us are, 
of southern stragglers, the Golden Oriole, Hoopoe, and 
Baillon’s Crake; of northern, the Great Grey Shrike, 
