8 CONTENTS 



CHAPTER IV 



Bird-Voices — The" Corn-crake — The Black-Cap — The Turtle-Dove 

 — Carpexter-Birds — The Nuthatch — The Wryxeck — The Great 

 Tit — The Letter-Box Tit of Rowfant . . . Pp. iii — 130 



CHAPTER V 



The Owl — The Magpie —The Kestrel or Windhover — Haunts of the 

 Heron — Bird-Destroyers, the Gamekeeper and "Naturalist " 



Pp- 131 — 150 



CHAPTER VI 



The Sea-Eagle — Guillemots — Egg-Gathering — The Paradise of the 

 Puffins — The Stormy-Petrel — The Sea-Eagle's Victims — The 

 Black-Backed Gull — The Skua — Among the Cormorants and 

 Gulls Pp. 151 — 185 



CHAPTER VII 



The Kingfisher— The Mystery and Folk-Lore of the Halcyon — 

 The Water-Vole at Home — In the Water-Meadows — The 

 Moorhen and its Haunts — The Reed-Warbler — The Sedge- 

 Warbler — Music of the Summer Nights — Waking the Sun 



Pp. 187—216 



