A LIST 
OF 
BRITISH BIEDS 
BY 
W. R. OGILVIE-GRANT. 
PREFACE. 
A complete list of British Birds, printed in such a form that 
it can be cut up and used for labelling collections, has frequently- 
been asked for during the last few years, and to meet this demand 
the present work has been prepared. 
A list of British Birds was published by the late Mr. Howard 
Saunders in 1907, but so many additions to the British Avifauna 
have been made since then that it is now out of date. The 
different founts used in Saunders' list to indicate the status of 
each species render it somewhat troublesome to follow, and it is 
believed that the system adopted in the present list will be found 
much more convenient. 
The nomenclature in the present list differs somewhat from that 
used in the British Museum Catalogues and Guides, especially in 
the matter of such genera as Totanus and Tringa, which have 
been split up for no very apparent reason. 
Species, of which the history is doubtful, or which have, 
perhaps, been artificially introduced, are placed in square 
brackets and are not numbered. 
When species have not occurred more than six times references 
are given to the works in which they have been recorded. 
To avoid unnecessary repetition, Howard Saunders' " Illustrated 
Manual of British Birds," 2nd edition, 1899, is referred to 
throughout as " Saunders." 
W. R. OGILVIE-GRANT. 
29, Elvaston Place, 
London, S.W., 
29^^ June; 1910. 
