Several of the birds named below are permanent residents in the British Islands, and others are regular visitors to this country. They are put in the present place because seen near Manchester only at uncertain intervals, or as casuals, the only one that can be looked for with any degree of probability, being the sea-gull. The visits, as will be seen from the dates, have in some cases occurred at periods so far back, that except for completeness' sake, they would scarcely be worth mention. I quote them from standard works upon ornithology, and from the late Mr. John Blackwall's paper upon the migrations of Manchester birds in the "Transactions of the Literary and Philosophical Society for 1822," the observations having been made during the eight years 1814-1821. THE LITTLE CRAKE (_Crex pusilla_), v., 244. One at Ardwick in 1807. THE GOLDEN ORIOLE (_Oriolus galbula_), iii., 133. One near Manchester in 1811. THE ORTOLAN (_Emberiza hortulana_), ii., 101. One near Manchester in 1827. THE CROSSBILL (_Loxia curvirostra_), ii., 116. About the year 1840, in the month of August, a large flock of these birds, old and young in company, visited Hough-end Clough for a few hours. Mr. Blackwall gives as its Manchester period, August 5th to November 19th. THE CHATTERER (_Ampelis garrulus_), i., 59. In Mr. Blackwall's list. THE HOOPOE (_Upupa epops_), i., 49. In Mr. Blackwall's list. THE RED-BACKED SHRIKE (_Lanius collurio_), i., 34. Sometimes seen in the summer. THE GREAT SHRIKE (_Lanius excubitor_), i., 33. In Mr. Blackwall's list, and was seen at Cheadle about 1850. (On the Lancashire localities of the three species of Lanius, see the _Manchester Guardian_ for March 11th, 1882.) THE MERLIN (_Falco æsalon_), i., 16. In Mr. Blackwall's list. (On the Lancashire localities, see _Manchester Guardian_, January 14th, 1882.) THE DUSKY GREBE (_Colymbus obscurus_), v., 296. Once near Manchester. BEWICK'S SWAN (_Cygnus Bewickii_), v., 262. A flock of twenty-nine at Crumpsall on December 10th, 1829, and another of seventy-three at the same place, February 28th, 1830. THE LITTLE BITTERN (_Ardea minuta_), iv., 205. A very shy and sulky little bird, sitting all of a heap, and looking like a bit of brown stump. THE COMMON BITTERN (_Botaurus stellaris_), iv., 204. THE GREAT OR SOLITARY SNIPE (_Scolopax major_), iv., 226. Has been seen at Urmston. THE NIGHTINGALE (_Sylvia Luscinia_), iii., 147. The visit of the nightingales to our neighbourhood will long be remembered by those who heard their song.