BOOK OF DOVECOTES 



lightful, and well illustrated account by the 

 Honourable Mrs. Berkeley, printed in the Re- 

 ports and Papers of the Architectural Societ- 

 ies, vol. xxviii., 1905-6; to articles by Alfred 

 Watkins, Esq., J. P., who has dealt with Here- 

 fordshire and other dovecotes in the Trans- 

 actions of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field 

 Club for 1890, and elsewhere; and to the care- 

 ful and detailed accounts of Northamptonshire 

 examples by Major C. A. Markham, now ap- 

 pearing from time to \A\x\^vci Northamptonshire 

 Notes and Queries. To the two last-named 

 gentlemen, as also to Mr. H. E. Forrest of 

 Shrewsbury, I owe much for kindly help in 

 other ways. 



But personal knowledge, even with this aid, 

 would have gone but a short way to fill the 

 present volume. Doubtless the ideal method 

 for the dovecote-hunter is to sling a rucksack 

 on his shoulder, take a walking-stick, a camera, 

 and thick-soled boots, and go a-foot through 

 all the by-ways of the land in quest of his 

 peculiar prey. Failing the possibility of such 

 a tempting course, I am indebted to all those 

 who, upon receipt of a portentous list of ques- 



