In two handsome Royal 8«o Volumes, cloth gilt, price £1 12s. G(Z. net. 



NOTES 



ON THE 



BIRDS OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. 



BY 



LORD LILFORD, 



PRESIDENT OF THE BRITISH OUNITHOLOGISTs' UNION AND OF THE 

 NORTHAMPTONSHIRE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



. ILLUSTRATED 



Messrs. A. THORBURN and G. E. LODGE. 



"WITH A MAP OF TfOKTHAMPTONSHIRE. 



" LoBD Lilford's keen interest in birds Is well known, and his magnificent illustrated work on 

 the subject is the delight of all bird-lovers. These two handsome vohinies of 'Notes on the Birds 

 of Northamptonshire and Neighbourhood' consist for the most part of papers contributed by Lord 

 Lilford from time to time to the ' Journal of the Northamptonshire Natural History Society.' But 

 the notes and observations are by no means confined to Northamptonshire and its neighbourhood. 

 Lord Lilford has travelled much aud carried his love of birds, and his habit of observing them, 

 wherever he went. ' I mui^t," he says, ' explain my frequent reference to various parts of the world 

 by stating that in the early years of our society's existence we had not any member but myself who 

 had devoted any special attention to Ornithology,'aud I therefore thought it well to tell all that I 

 knew from personal experience of the birds 1 had to treat.' Thus, though Northamptonshire aud its 

 immediate neighbourhood noiuinally supplies the local limitations of the book, its real boundaries are 

 those of Lord Lilford's travels and personal observation, and every bird which can be connected, 

 hov\ever remotely, with Northamptonshire is described not merely in reference to that particular 

 habitat, but from the fulness of Lord Lilford's knowledge. ' I have no pretence,' he says, surely with 

 undue modesty, ' to the title of scientitic ornithologist, but I have been a lover of birds from my earliest 

 vears, and a close observer of their habits, till debarred from such observation by physical infirmity.' 

 Lord Lilford's observations are not, it is true, scientific or systematic ; but no lover of birds will 

 appreciate them the less for that, or fail to recognize in their spirit and method that kinship with 

 (lilbert White which to those who share it is an irresistible bond of sympathy. The work is copiously 

 and very effectively illustrated by Messrs. A. Ihorburn and G. E. Lodge, and should command a ready 

 welcome far beyond the limits of Northamptonshire." — Times, Jan. 11, 1896. 



LONDON: 

 R. H. PORTER, 18 PRINCES STREET, CAVENDISH SQUARE, W. 



