IT would be ungracious on my part to fail to 

 express in this place my indebtedness to the 

 reviewers of my former work, "Birds by Land 

 and Sea," for the cordial reception accorded by 

 them to that book. I trust that in the preparation 

 of the present one I shall not seem to have mis- 

 applied the stimulus an author must always derive 

 from sympathetic and discriminating criticism. 



J. M. B. 



STRETFORD, 

 OCTOBER 21st, 1905. 



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