TABLE OF CONTENTS xiii 



CHAPTER X 



MIGRATION AND DISTRIBUTION 



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Migration of birds Letter of Scandinavian Poet Newton's reply 

 Theories of migration Torpidity and other superstitions 

 Gatke Mr. Eagle-Clarke's observations at lighthouses 

 Destruction of life History of migration Aristotle and 

 Pliny Geographical distribution Ptarmigan Origin of life 

 Holarctic Eegion A, R. Wallace Address at Manchester . 160 



CHAPTEE XI 



GILBERT WHITE AND OTHERS 



Gilbert White Reviews of " Selborne " Coleridge's Marginalia 



Gilbert White's wig" Selborne " a classic Mr. Holt- White's 



" Life " " Molly " letters Mulso's letters Thomas Bewick 



-Willughby Ray Gould F. Buckland T. Edwards R. 



Jefferies H. Seebohm 186 



CHAPTER XII 



METHODS OF WORK 



Accuracy Care in identification The Scaup Duck Bustard- 

 Great Black Woodpecker Vipers swallowing young Slow- 

 ness in work Yarrell's " British Birds " Classification' 

 Linnaean system Nomenclature Subspecies and trinomials . 207 



CHAPTER XIII 



LANGUAGES AND WORDS 



Correspondence with Professor Skeat De Avosetta Capercaillie 



Mistletoe Thrush Decoy Okapi No Snakes in Iceland . 220 



CHAPTER XIV 



WRITING AND CONSERVATISM 



Letter-writing B. M. Cats. Dedications Zoological anecdote- 

 Professor Babington and suet puddings " Dictionary of Birds " 

 Publishers Revisions Style Reviewers The Cuckow 

 Philosophy Politics and College politics Mr. A. C. Benson's 

 reminiscences Bores - Interest in young naturalists . . 234 



