BIRDS OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD. 
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Yellow Bunting. 
Chaffinch. 
Goldfinch. 
Linnet. 
Redpole . 
Tree Sparrow. 
House Sparrow. 
Greenfinch. 
Bullfinch. 
Starling . 
Rook. 
Magpie. 
Jay . 
Cuckoo. 
Swallow . 
Martin. 
Sand Martin . 
Swift.. 
Ring Dove .. 
Turtle Dove . 
Partridge. 
Pheasant. 
Lapwing.. 
Common Sandpiper . 
Land Rail . 
Moorhen. 
Coot.. 
Wild Duck.. 
Great Crested Grebe 
Little Grebe . 
Emberiza citrinella. 
Fringilla coelebs. 
Fringilla carduelis. 
Linota cannabina. 
Linota linaria. 
Passer montanus. 
Passer domesticus. 
Coccothraustes cliloris. 
Pyrrhula vulgaris. 
Sturnus vulgaris. 
Corvus frugilegus. 
Pica caudata. 
Garrulus glandarius. 
Cuculus canorus. 
Hirundo rustica. 
Hirundo urbica. 
Hirundo riparia. 
Cypselus apus. 
Columba palumbus. 
Turtur auritus. 
Perdix cinerea. 
Pliasianus colchicus. 
Vanellus cristatus. 
Tringoides liypoleucos. 
Crex pratensis. 
Gallinula chloropus. 
Fulica atra. 
Anas boschas. 
Podiceps cristatus. 
Podiceps minor. 
PRINCIPLES OF BIOLOGY.. 
BY HERBERT SPENCER. 
Mr. Barratt's Note. 
BY LAWSON TAIT, F.R.C.S. 
I am well aware that the “Midland Naturalist” is not 
intended to be the medium for the discussion of such abstruse 
questions as those raised in the fifth and sixth chapters of 
Mr. Herbert Spencer’s Principles of Biology ; but perhaps you 
will allow me very briefly to indicate one of very many 
reasons why I, as a follower of the philosophy of evolution 
as built up by Charles Darwin, cannot be a disciple of Mr. 
Herbert Spencer, and I know that many far more important 
people than I have encountered similar difficulties. Mr. 
Herbert Spencer’s philosophy every now and then gets alto¬ 
gether above the facts of a case and violently tramples them 
