I AM greatly indebted to many friends for permission 

 to use several of the bigger bird pictures in this 

 work, and to the publishers, Messrs. Heath 

 Cranton, Ltd., for most of the remaining illustrations, 

 and I thank the courteous Hon. Sec. of the Fame Island 

 Association for his notes regarding the prosperous work 

 of that body in the matter of protection of the rarer 

 species of the wild birds. 



I am also sensible of the large amount of support 

 which the general public, and especially my friends of 

 the North, have given to the books, which I have from 

 time to time placed upon the market. To them I 

 tender my hearty thanks for so lengthy a patronage. 



THE AUTHOR. 



January, 1922. 



