CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



Value of Observation. — Land and Water compared. — 

 Game v. Fish.— How to prepare Eggs. — How to 

 count Eggs. — Number of Eggs in Fish. — Spat of 

 Oyster. — Hard and soft Roe. — Colour of Fisli 

 Eggs. — Toughness of Egg 1 — 21 



CHAPTER II. 



How the Fish deposits her Spawn. — Fish Nests. — Salmon 

 Spawning. — Trouts' Nests. — Experiment with Eggs. 

 — Salmon depositing its Eggs. — Salmon covers her 

 Eggs.— The " Old Soldier."— Skeleton of Salmon.— 

 Salmon found Dead. — Stormontfields Fish . . 22 — 41 



CHAPTER III. 



Enemies of Ova. — Enemies of Fish Eggs. — Mill Wheels. — 

 Fish eat their own Eggs. — Water Insects. — Larvse of 

 May Fly.— Human Poachers. — Water-Ouzel. — Ex- 

 amination of Gizzard. — Other testimony. — Mr. 

 Gould's opinion. — Yerdict for Water-Ouzel. — Dab- 

 chicks.— Rats. — Water-Shrews. — Swans most de- 

 structive. — Evidence about Swans. — Swans at Lale- 



