APPENDIX. 
(A.) 
List of Birds which have been observed in the Shetland Islands up to 
the present date. 
[Compiled by the Editor, who is alone responsible for it.] 
Small Roman Capitals denote that the bird breeds in Shetland. 
Plain type indicates a bird Avhich visits or has visited the islands, 
but does not breed there. Italics are used in the few cases in 
which the Editor has been unable to find other evidence than that 
of marginal annotations, in Dr Saxby’s handwriting, on a printed 
catalogue of British birds, such annotations having been made 
subsequently to the year 1870. Two or three doubtful cases are 
enclosed in brackets. An asterisk signifies that the species was 
first recognised and placed upon the Shetland list by the Author of 
the present work. 
In some instances the asterisk will be found before the name of 
a bird which is also on Mr Thomas Edmondston’s list: reference to 
the body of the work will at once explain the apparent discrepancy. 
A few more names might possibly with justice have been thus 
marked, hut the matter did not seem sufficiently important to 
render the vindication worth while. 
Golden Eagle, . 
White-tailed Eagle, 
Osprey, 
Greenland Falcon, 
Iceland Falcon, . 
Peregrine Falcon, 
* Hobby, . 
Merlin, 
occasional; no longer breeds in 
Shetland, 
a few pairs breed, 
an occasional straggler, 
not infrequent, 
becoming rare, 
frequent, 
very scarce, 
abundant. 
