xliv COMPARATIVE REMARKS ON BIRDS OF MAN 
COMPARATIVE REMARKS ON THE BIRDS OF THE 
ISLE OF MAN. 
THE following pages give 183 Manx species, which may 
be apportioned thus (it need scarcely be said that such a 
classification can have only an approximation to correct- 
ness) : 
Resident (breeding), ; , iP 1b 
Regular Summer Migrants (breeding), ion ie 
Regular Autumn, Winter, or Spring Migrants 
(not breeding), iwi -4e 
With these last must be included the Gannet, 
as though present off our coast all summer, 
it does not breed. These three groups make 
up the total of genuine Manx birds, . "438 
Occasional, . ; , 45 
183 
Besides these, a certain number of species which have 
been recorded on evidence, which seemed more or less in- 
sufficient, have been noted in brackets in the body of the 
work. The list is yearly, however, in course of increase, 
partly no doubt through the changing conditions of the 
isle, but mainly by the larger number and greater vigilance 
of observers, 
Almost all birds generally distributed through the 
British Isles, at least as far as our latitude, are present in 
the Isle of Man (suitable localities being found here) in 
something of the same relative proportions as in the larger 
