. Pictures of bird life : on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh . y side. A suburban parish, only partly outside the I^ondonpostal district, and on the fringe of a dense population,is not the most likely neighbourhood for observing thelife habits of wild birds, and yet it is siuprising what anumber of species are to be met with as more or less Bird Life in a Suburban Parish 47 re_i>ul;ir \isit<)is at one season or tlie otlier, witliout takinginto account those accidental occurrences which liappenfrom time to time. For such an event as tlie pickino-up of an exhausted IVtrel or other pehi
. Pictures of bird life : on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh . y side. A suburban parish, only partly outside the I^ondonpostal district, and on the fringe of a dense population,is not the most likely neighbourhood for observing thelife habits of wild birds, and yet it is siuprising what anumber of species are to be met with as more or less Bird Life in a Suburban Parish 47 re_i>ul;ir \isit<)is at one season or tlie otlier, witliout takinginto account those accidental occurrences which liappenfrom time to time. For such an event as tlie pickino-up of an exhausted IVtrel or other pehigic s])ecies in aninlaiui locahty seems to me to l)e cpiite devoid of anymore than a passing interest, and to have no ornitliologicalimj)ortance Avliatever. Tlie particular county in whicli thestorm-ch-i\en wanderer happened to fall has no real claimto consider it as an inhabitant, although our l?ritish andcounty lists of species are, as a matter of fact, artificiallyswelled by the inclusion of many such cases. Sly idea in compiling these notes is not so much to. ISest of WniNCHAT {F>(i/iiioila nibctra). 48 Pictures of Bird Life gather together records of such rare and unusual e\ents,but rather to describe what I liave myself seen of tlieabundance of suburban bird hfe, to enumerate tlie differentspecies (ninety-one) observed dining the years 181)4 to 1903in tlic parisli of Enfield, and to illustrate, as far as pos
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