Excerpt from The Feathered Tribes of the British Islands, Vol. 2 of 2 Thus they have altogether a more polar locality. In the temperate latitude of Britain, where the winds from the sea keep the surface clear of snow for the greater part of the winter, the greater number of them are resident; and any that do come as visitants, come only in the winter, and from countries farther to the north, or Where the snow falls more thickly, or lies longer. They migrate more on the continent, because the seasonal variations, being less tempered by the vicinity of the sea, are greater there; and hence the occasional visitants are more numerous in proportion to those that come regularly, than in the case of the summer birds. So far as has been observed, the resident species of British birds of this order are more numerous, in proportion to the visitants and stragglers, than in the insectivoro'us birds; and as the visitants come at a time when birds flock or congre gate, and not when they spread themselves over their pastures as they do in the breeding season, the winter stragglers are better seen than the summer ones. 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.