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List of county and regional recorders in Britain and Ireland In March 1967 (Brit Birds, 60: 141-144) we published a list of the names and addresses of county and regional bird recorders and editors. Since that time, inevitably, there have been- a number of changes and, in particular, considerable developments in the recording systems for and Wales, and so we are now producing a new list which, again, is as up-to-date as possible. The previous list has proved useful to those collating records for special analyses and needing to write to individual counties. It has also encouraged observers on holiday away from their home areas to send records to the correct places. The periodi­ cal publication of a list of this kind is of value to observers, recorders and collators alike and we propose to try to make it an annual event. Several counties are divided into areas for recording purposes, but, so far as possible, the list includes one name only for each county for reasons of space and because we believe it is less confusing; observers who already know the names of area recorders in any county should, however, continue to submit records to them. In Scotland the county system is traditionally modified by 'faunal areas' and it is sometimes difficult for those who do not live in Scotland to understand where one sub-county ends and another begins. Nevertheless, as the new Scottish recording system is partly based on these faunal areas, we have put these where necessary in the Scottish section. Titles of publications are added in this list only when they do not include the names of the county or counties concerned. We shall be glad to know of any errors or omissions, and we hope that recorders will keep us informed of changes of address.

ENGLAND Arrangements are now in hand for an annual report covering the Lake District (, Westmorland and north Lancashire), which was the only serious gap in the recording system. All counties or regions are now issuing reports each year, including Bedfordshire which is returning, we are glad to announce, to an annual publication. Every English county is included in the following list (two addresses are given for Northamptonshire as the organisations concerned unfortunately work quite independently): Bedfordshire A. J. Livett, 12 Broughton Avenue, Luton, Bedfordshire Berkshire C. M. Reynolds, c/o Edward Grey Institute, Botanic Garden, Oxford Buckinghamshire Miss R. F. Levy, Bramblings, Frieth, Henley-on-Thames, Oxford­ (Bird Report in The Middle-Thames Naturalist) Cambridgeshire G. M. S. Easy, , 11 Landbeach Road, Milton, Cambridge­ shire 188 LIST OF COUNTY AND REGIONAL RECORDERS Cheshire G. A. Williams, Rose Cottage, Mannings Lane, Hoole, Chester, Cheshire Cornwall Reverend J. E. Beckerlegge, St. Crowan Vicarage, Praze, Camborne, Cornwall Cumberland R. Stokoe, 4 Fern Bank, Cockermouth, Cumberland Derbyshire C. N. Whipple, 3 Oaklands Road, Etwall, Derby DE6 6JJ Devon F. R. Smith, Telford, Hill Barton Road, Exeter, Devon Dorset T. Hooker, Southernwood, Canford Magna, Wimborne, Dorset Durham D. G. Bell, 18 Rosedale Crescent, Guisborough, North Yorkshire Essex Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Weston, 63 Woodberry Way, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex Gloucestershire C. M. Swaine, Mill House, Rendcomb, Cirencester, Gloucestershire Hampshire J. H. Taverner, 13 Stockers Avenue, Winchester, Hampshire Herefordshire T. R. H. Owen, Lulham House, Madley, Herefordshire Hertfordshire B. L. Sage, 13 Dugdale Hill Lane, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire Huntingdonshire B. S. Milne, 76 Ramsey Road, St. Ives, Huntingdonshire Kent W. F. A. Buck, The Hill Farm, Stockbury, Sittingbourne, Kent Lancashire K. G. Spencer, 3 Landseer Close, off Carr Road, Burnley, Lancashire Leicestershire Miss K. M. Kirton, 41 Laburnum Road, Garden City, Leicester Lincolnshire A. D; Townsend, 11 Bassingham Crescent, Lincoln London F. H. Jones, 28 Jordan Road, Greenford, Middlesex Monmouthshire see WALES Norfolk M. J. Seago, 33 Acacia Road, Thorpe, Norwich, Norfolk NOR 71T Northamptonshire C. J. Coe, 3 The Orchard, Flore, Northamptonshire {Journal of the Northamptonshire Natural History Society and Field Club); J. L. Moore, 11 New Road, Geddington, Kettering, Northamptonshire {Animal Bird Report of the Kettering and District Natural History Society) Dr. J. D. Parrack, 1 Links Court, Whitley Bay, Northumberland Nottinghamshire A. Dobbs, Cloverleigh, Old Main Road, Bulcote, Nottingham Oxfordshire see Berkshire Rutland see Leicestershire Shropshire Lieutenant-Colonel H. R. Perkins, The Batch, Bridgnorth, Shropshire Somerset Miss E. M. Palmer, Highfield, Sandford Hill, Bridgwater, Somerset Staffordshire J. Lord, Orduna, 155 Tamworth Road, Sutton Coldfield, Warwick­ shire (West Midland Bird Report) Suffolk W. H. Payn, Hartest Place, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk Surrey D. D. B. Summers, Gallinula, Longmoor Road, Greatham, Liss, Hampshire Sussex M. Shrubb, Fairfie'ds, Sidlesham, Chichester, Sussex Warwickshire see Staffordshire Westmorland see Cumberland Wiltshire Mrs. R. G. Barnes, Hungerd3wn, Seagry, Wiltshire Worcestershire see Staffordshire Yorkshire A. J. Wallis, 13 Raincliffe Avenue, Scarborough, Yorkshire The London BirdReport also includes those sections of Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent and Surrey which are within 20 miles of St. Paul's Cathedral. Similarly, a number of other reports overlap with adjacent ones to a greater or lesser extent and cover parts of one or more counties. Among the most significant of these is the Mersejside Naturalists' Association Bird Report (Eric Hardy, 47 Woodsorrel Road, Liverpool 15) which ranges widely over north-west and north Wales. Others include the BristolBird Report (P. J. Chadwick, 6 Goldney

189 BRITISH BIRDS Avenue, Clifton, Bristol 8), the Hastings and East Sussex Naturalist (L. R. Conisbee, i Shaftesbury Avenue, Bedford), the Isle of Wight Bird Report (J. Stafford, Westering, Moor Lane, Brighstone, Isle of Wight), the Proceedings of the Liverpool Naturalists' Field CM (J, Hodgett, 5 Richmond Terrace, Seaforth, Liverpool 21), the Report of the "Liver­ pool Ornithologists'' Club (Dr. R. J. Raines, 34 Beryl Road, Noctorum, Birkenhead, Cheshire), the Lowestoft Field Club Report (C. P. Barsted, 112 Colville Road, Oulton Broad, Lowestoft, Suffolk), and the Manchester Ornithological Society Bird Report (P. G. H. Wolstenholme, 4 Didsbury Park, Manchester 20). Several other local natural history societies, observatories and reserves also publish annual bird reports, but these are too numerous to list. In many cases there is complete interchange of information between overlapping county reports and between local reports and county ones, but there are still a number of instances where co-operation is only partial or even lacking, and it is to be hoped that those concerned will do their utmost to resolve such situations, which greatly add to the work of any central collator or analyst and which must bewilder casual visitors to the areas concerned. One of the aims of the recent con­ ference of local report editors at Swanwick, Derbyshire, during i5th-i7th September 1967 (see 'News and comment' in Brit. Birds, 60: 260; 61: 94) was to foster a greater spirit of co-operation in cases of this kind.

ISLE OF MAN The Isle of Man produces its own annual report in The Peregrine, and bird records are collected by E. D. Kerruish, 3 High View Road, Douglas, Isle of Man.

WALES Recording arrangements in Wales have progressed most favourably in the past year and it is now hoped that the first 'Welsh Bird Report', covering 1967, will be published in the journal Nature in Wales in September 1968. This will aim to present a summary of the more important ornithological records in Wales in each calendar year and will collate local records into a coherent pattern for the whole. It will be edited by P. Hope Jones and Peter Davis. A number of county reports will continue to be produced annually and for 1968 these will be as follows: Anglesey A. J. Mercer, Llywenan, Merddyn Gwyn, Brynsiencyn, Anglesey (Annual Report of Cambrian Ornithological Society) Breconshire M. V. Preece, Beaufort House, Upper Llangynidr, near Crickhowell Breconshire

190 LIST OF COUNTY AND REGIONAL RECORDERS Caernarvonshire see Anglesey Cardiganshire Peter Davis, Ty Coed, Tregaron, Cardiganshire Carmarthenshire D. H. V. Roberts, 3 8 Heol Hathren, Cwmann, 1 .ampeter, Cardigan­ shire Denbighshire see Anglesey Glamorgan H. E. Grenfell, The Woods, 14 Bryn Terrace, Mumbles, Swansea, Glamorgan Merioneth see Anglesey Monmouthshire W. G. Lewis, 11 Ruth Road, New Inn, Pontypool, Monmouthshire Montgomeryshire Miss V. J. Macnair, Lower Garth, Welshpool, Montgomeryshire Pembrokeshire J. W. Donovan, The Burren, Dingle Lane, Crundale, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire Radnorshire see ENGLAND, Herefordshire Bird records for Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire will be published together in an annual report of the West Wales Naturalists' Trust. The county recorder for Flintshire is C. Done, San Remo, Cefn Bychan Road, Pantymwyn, Mold, Flintshire. The territory of the Mersey side Naturalists' Association Bird Report (see ENGLAND) extends into north Wales, and there are separate observatory reports for Bardsey, Caernarvonshire, and Skokholm, Pembrokeshire.

SCOTLAND The recording system has also developed greatly in Scotland during the past year and, beginning with 1968 (to appear in 1969), an annual 'Scottish Bird Report' will be published in the quarterly journal Scottish Birds (Andrew T. Macmillan, 12 Abinger Gardens, Edinburgh 12). As already noted, the area recorders for this are partly by counties and partly by the faunal areas which are shown on a map at the end of volume 2 of The Birds of Scotland by E. V. Baxter and L. J. Rintoul (1953). The counties for England and Wales are listed alphabetically above, but this becomes impossible with the Scottish system. In the following list, therefore, the areas are taken from north to south:

Shetland {except Fair Isle) R. J. Tulloch, Reafirth, Mid Yell, Fair Isle R. H. Dennis, Bird Observatory, Fair Isle, Lerwick, Shetland E. Balfour, Isbister House, Rendall, Orkney Outer Hebrides {except St. Kilda) W. A. J. Cunningham, 10 Barony Square, Storno- way, St. Kilda Andrew T. Macmillan, 12 Abinger Gardens, Edinburgh 12 D. M. Stark, 2 Harland Road, Castletown, Thurso, Caithness , Ross-shire {except Black Isle) Dr. I. D. Pennie, The Hollies, Golspie, Sutherland Inverness-shire {within 18 miles of Inverness), Ross-shire {Black Isle only) Dr. Maeve Rusk, Arniston, 51 Old Edinburgh Road, Inverness Inverness-shire {mainland more than iS miles from Inverness) The Honourable Douglas Weir, English Charlie's, Rothiemurchus, Aviemore, Inverness-shire Nairnshire, Morayshire, R. Hewson, 170 Mid Street, Keith, Banffshire Dee faunal area {, north ) N. Picozzi, Unit of Grouse and Moorland Ecology, Blackhall, Banchory, Kincardineshire; and W. Murray, Culterty Field Station, Newburgh, Aberdeenshire 191 BRITISH BIRDS

South Kincardineshire, Angus G. M. Crighton, 23 Church Street, Brechin, Angus Miss V. M. Thom, 19 Braeside Gardens, Perth Kinross-shire J. H. Swan, Vane Farm Reserve, Kinross Isle of May Miss N. J. , Nature Conservancy, 12 Hope Terrace, Edinburgh 9 {east of A90) D. W. Oliver, 4 Lawview Cottages, Abercrombie, St. Monance, Fife Fife {west of A<)6), Clackmannanshire, east Stirlingshire T. D. H. Merrie, West Faerwood, Road, Dollar, West Dr. T. C. Smout, 93 Warrender Park Road, Edinburgh 9 , Forth islands (except May) R. W. J. Smith, 33 Hunter Terrace, Loanhead, Midlothian , K. S. Macgregor, 16 Merchiston Avenue, Edinburgh 10 , , A. J. Smith, Glenview, Selkirk Clyde faunal area {, , , , west Stirling­ shire, Bute, south ), north Argyll, Skye, Inner Hebrides Professor M. F. M. Meiklejohn, 16 Athole Gardens, W.2 J. G. Young, Benvannoch, Glencaple, Dumfriesshire , A. D. Watson, Barone, Dairy, Castle Douglas, Kirkcudbrightshire

IRELAND There is no system of county reports, but the whole country is covered by the annual Irish Bird Report edited by Major R. F. Ruttledge. Records should be submitted as follows: Northern Ireland T. Ennis, 45 Park Drive, Holywood, Co. Down Eire Major R. F. Ruttledge, Doon, Newcastle, Co. Wicklow

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