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 Region — A. R, Wallace — Address at Manchester . 160 



CHAPTER XI 



GILBERT WHITE AND OTHERS 



Gilbert White — Reviews of " Selbome " — Coleridge's Marginalia — 

 Gilbert White's wig — *' Selbome " 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— 

 Linnsean 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 



