PREFACE. 
I Have but a few words to add to the prefatory remarks 
which will be found in the first volume. I therein sketched 
Out the plan of the work which I proposed to follow. Since 
the issue of the first volume, two species have been added to 
the British list. Of the Sub-alpine Warbler (Sylvia stibalpina), 
‘"t specimen was shot in St. Kilda in June, 1894, by Mr. J. S. 
Plliot, as recorded by me in the Bulletin of the British Orni- 
thologists’ Club, Vol. IV. p. ix. Coues’ Redpole (Cannabina 
^^ilipes) has been obtained by Ur. Bendelack Hewetson near 
liasington on the west coast of Yorkshire during the winter of 
'^93-94) as has been recorded by Mr. John Cordeaux in the 
Naturalist” for March, 1894 (p. 84). 
A hile the criticisms on the first volume of the “ Handbook ” 
lave been wholly favourable and kindly, three notices in par- 
ticular have appeared, in reply to which I should like to sav a 
‘ew words. 
, N, Sclater seems to imply (“Ibis,” 1894, p. 566) that 
’louienclature adopted by me in the “ Handbook ” is intro- 
^ need into my writings for the first time, and he alludes par- 
th^ names of the genera in the Family Corvidec, but 
iianies are not of my own foundation. I adopted them, 
‘If monographing the whole of the Family in the “Catalogue 
