of these, proper to our own neighbourhood, there would seem to occur within a few miles of Manchester about ninety. The number of permanent residents mentioned in the "Walks" is fifty-nine, and of regular summer and winter visitors between twenty-five and thirty; if there is any difference at the present moment, the changes of twenty-four years will certainly not indicate increase. Why we have no more than about one-half of the proper ornithology of the country is that Lancashire is too far to the north, and its climate too damp and chilly, for many of the summer immigrants from beyond the channel, though some of these have no objection to visit the adjacent county of York; while in respect of the winter visitors from the colder parts of the Continent and the Baltic regions, we are rather too far to the west. If few in comparison with the possessions of more favoured districts, the ninety or a hundred are still enough to be proud of and to rejoice in. It is with birds as with wild-flowers: we do not want lengthy catalogues, but that which shall gladden the heart. A single life-history, followed up in every little particular, supplies, exactly as in botany, more real and lasting enjoyment than acquaintance, however sounding, with a score of mere shapes and measurements, and resting therein. The parts most abounding in birds are naturally those which supply food in the greatest abundance. The peat-mosses, the cold and treeless hills have their inhabitants. Still, it is where fruit abounds, and where the insects depending on vegetation are most numerous, that birds must always be expected to gather in largest numbers. Trees and substantial hedgerows are also inviting, so that, all things considered, the southern and south-western parts of the neighbourhood are probably the richest both in number of species and of individuals.