_Kites_.—Ring-tailed eagle, osprey, common buzzard, honey buzzard, kite, goshawk, sparrow-hawk, hen harrier, kestrel, and marten. _Owls_.—Great-eared owl, white owl, and tawny owl. _Butcher Birds_.—Great ash-coloured shrike, red-backed shrike. _Pies_.—Raven, carrion crow, hooded crow, rook, jackdaw, magpie, jay, starling, ring ousel, ousel cock or blackbird, missel thrush or storm cock, fieldfare, throstle or thrush, redwing, cuckoo, and wryneck. _Woodpeckers_.—Green, greater spotted, lesser spotted, nuthatch, and creeper. _Grosbeaks_.—Grosbeak or hawfinch, green grosbeak, bullfinch, pine grosbeak. _Buntings_.—Brown, yellow hammer, blackheaded or reed sparrow, and snow bunting. _Finches_.—House sparrow, mountain sparrow, chaff, or pied-finch, mountain-finch, gold-finch, linnet, and lesser redpole. _Larks_.—Sky-lark, field-lark, grashopper-lark, wood-lark, and tit-lark. _Wagtails_.—Pied, or water wagtail, grey, and yellow. _Flycatchers_.—Pied, or gold-finch, spotted, or house linnet. _Warblers_.—Robin redbreast or ruddock, redstart or brantail. _Fauvette_.—Lesser fauvette, winter fauvette or hedge sparrow, reed fauvette, black-cap, white-throat, yellow willow wren, willow wren, least willow wren, wren, golden-crested wren, white rump or wheat ear, win-chat, or gorsehopper, stonechat, and nightingale. _Titmice_.—Greater, blue or tom-tit, cole, marsh, long-tailed, or can-bottle. _Swallows_.—Chimney swallow, marten, sand marten, swift or deviling, night jaw or fern owl. _Doves_.—Wild pigeon, ring dove, turtle dove, and small black rock pigeon. _Gallinaceous_.—Domestic cock, pheasant, turkey, peacock, pintado or guinea fowl, wood grouse, black grouse, red grouse, partridge, quail, corncrake or landrail. _Plovers_.—Great plover, pee-wit or lapwing, golden plover, and grey plover. WATER BIRDS.—Long-legged plover, water crake, or rail, water ousel, and kingfisher or haleyon. _Herons_.—Heron, bittern or bog-boom, and curlew. _Snipes_.—Woodcock, great snipe, common snipe, and judcock, or jacksnipe. _Godwit_.—Brown sandpiper, common sandpiper, water, or moor hen, coot, greater coot, great crested grebe, little grebe, or jack doucker. _Terns_.—Common and lesser. Common gull. _Ducks_.—Wild swan, swan goose, grey-lag goose, tame goose, mallard, or wild duck, shieldrake, widgeon, and teal. _Pelicans_.—Cormorant,—pelecanus graculus, or the shag. The district has occasionally other aërial visitants, including the _peregrine falcon_, the bird which furnished the ancient amusement of falconry, the _colymbus troile_, or guillemot, and the _corvus caryocatactes_, or nutcracker. Mr. Cross’s specimens are of recent date, many of the birds named having been taken during the last twelve months. We subjoin his list, which will be read with interest by all lovers of natural history:—