x] HISTORY OF MANX ORNITHOLOGY 
was contributed by an anonymous correspondent, ‘Philornis.’ 
The first attempt, however, at a list of Manx species, is, I 
believe, that of Mr. P. M. C. Kermode, dated originally 5th 
November 1880, and afterwards in another form, and much 
revised, forming part of the first volume of the Transactions 
of the Isle of Man Natural History and Antiquarian 
Society * (1879-1884, but published in 1888), and enumerat- 
ing one hundred and twenty-seven species (in its first form 
one hundred and forty-two, but many noted with a?). Since 
that time ornithological notes have been frequent in that 
Society’s Trwnsactions, and also in the current volumes of 
the Zoologist. See Zool., 1888, pp. 265, 429; 1890, p. 355; 
1891, p. 218; 1892, pp. 28, 93; notes by the present 
writer on a number of species (fifty-five), p. 146; 
1894, pp. 63, 161, 386 (at the latter place the present 
writer gives an extended account of Manx sea-bird colonies); 
1895, p. 235; 1896, p. 470; 1897, pp. 71, 168; 1899, pp. 32, 
420; 1901, p. 468; 1902, p. 23; 1903, pp. 266, 313, 316, 
317. Naturalist, 1897, p. 221 (a list by the writer of the 
birds observed in Lonan, fifty-six in number). 
In 1895 he also contributed to Yn Lioar Manninagh a 
paper on ‘ Bird Life in the Neighbourhood of Douglas,’ enu- 
merating one hundred and eighteen species (vol. ii. p. 264). 
Mr. Kermode published in the Isle of Man Natural His- 
tory Society’s third volume (Yn Lioar Manninagh, 1901, 
pp. 516, et seg.) a greatly enlarged list, which extends the 
number of species to one hundred and seventy-five, and 
added lengthy notes. In regard to many of the rarer 
species, it is on the information given in this latest work of 
Mr. Kermode’s, and often elsewhere unattainable, that the 
articles in the present work are based, and the author 
1 This Society, founded in 1879, and continued to the present time mainly by 
the energy of Mr. P. M. C. Kermode, for many years its secretary, has also 
formed a small museum at Ramsey, which contains a number of Manx birds. 
