Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Hand-List of British Birds: With an Account of the Distribution of Each Species in the British Isles and Abroad
In drawing up this account of the distribution of each species in the British Isles we have had in view the necessity of giving such details as will indicate to the student whether a bird is worthy of special record on account of its general rarity, its scarcity in any particular part of the country, or at some particular season of the year, or because of the want of previous observations. For these and other such reasons it has been necessary to treat some species much more fully than others. The distribution abroad has been given in more general terms, but here again a species of wide range does not require so much detail as one of more restricted or unequal distribution. Moreover our knowledge of the distribution of some species is much more complete than that of others.
The notes on migration refer chie?y to passage-movements or are given in cases where the known migrations of a species are too complicated to be treated in the distributional accounts.
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