_Printed at_ THE BALLANTYNE PRESS SPOTTISWOODE, BALLANTYNE & CO. LTD. _Colchester, London & Eton, England_ FOOTNOTES: [1] _Wild Life in a Southern County._ [2] Seebohm’s _British Birds_. Transcriber’s Notes: 1. Obvious printers’, punctuation and spelling errors have been corrected silently. 2. Where hyphenation is in doubt, it has been retained as in the original. 3. Some hyphenated and non-hyphenated versions of the same words have been retained as in the original. 4. New partial original cover art included with this eBook is granted to the public domain. 5. Italics are shown as _xxx_.