The Birds of Cumberland

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Excerpt from The Birds of Cumberland: Critically Studied, Including Some Notes on the Birds of Westmorland To working ornithologists, the maritime counties of England are essentially of primary interest, both from the numerous species which regularly haunt the seaboard and estuaries, and from the frequent occurrence of rare European forms upon the coastline. When, therefore, I came to Cumberland, in 1882, I naturally asked myself, "What is the Avi-fauna of this county?" An examination of faunal literature shewed that, while the counties of Durham and Northumberland, of Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Sussex, Cornwall, and Somerset, had been treated of exhaustively, or in part, by Messrs. John Hancock (1874), W. E. Clarke (1881), J. Cordeaux (1872), H. Stevenson (1866-70), A. E. Knox (1849), E. H. Rodd (1880), Cecil Smith (1869), the literature of the Aves of the north-west of England was wholly of a meagre and unsatisfactory character. I at once decided to devote every fragment of leisure to the elucidation of the Avi-fauna of Cumberland, and sought the fullest information on all hands, visiting all districts and sifting every fact presented to me with the utmost care. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.