CONTENTS 



CHAPTER 



I. Description of the Somerset 

 Hills ..... 



II. Birds That Live Around Houses 



III. Birds That Live in the Fields 



IV. Birds That Haunt Cultivated 



Locations .... 



V. Birds to be Found near Water 

 OR Marshes 



VI. Birds That Live in the Woods 



VII. Birds That Live in the Air . 



VIII. A Score of Rare Birds 



IX. The Increase and Decrease of 

 Birds ..... 



X. My Best Day's Record . 

 XI. Calendar of Bird Migration 



Part I. Earliest Spring Records 

 II. Latest Fall Records 

 III. Monthly Records 

 XII. Terms Used to Denote the Abun 

 dance or Rarity of Birds 



XIII. Complete List of Birds Observed 



in the Somerset Hills 



XIV. The Horrors of the Taking of 



Aigrettes .... 



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