Preface 
Gurney and Jackson for their courtesy in 
supplying some clichés taken from the 
illustrations in the useful Manual of British 
Birds by my friend the late Mr. Howard 
Saunders, in which the text-figures are so 
faithful and at the same time artistic. 
In all humility I desire to lay this little 
Tercentenary offering at the shrine of the 
“Sweet Swan of Avon.” 
SHEPHERDs Down, 
HasLEMERE, Ist August, 1916. 
