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each month of the year. The author seems to have written out 

 of sheer love for his subject. His enthusiasm is infectious. 

 Possessing an unusual facility of expression, the author is able 

 to make even the most everyday fact of his subject interesting. 

 Keen insight and power of interpretation are everywhere 

 apparent in these essays, while here and there he is able to 

 show his less fortunate brother naturalists something of the 

 mysteries of the inner life of birds which are but rarely to be 

 encountered. Books by what we may call camera-naturalists 

 are legion, but this is one of the very best that have yet 

 appeared." 



Morning Leader. "His delightful book will bear comparison 

 with any of his predecessors', and it has a method which is 

 conspicuously lacking in some others. He has a happy knack 

 of original observation and a sense of humour, often subtle and 

 never vulgar, which makes his notes far more attractive reading 

 than is generally found in works of this kind. The range of 

 Mr. Boraston's observations is bounded only by the scope of his 

 subject. Nothing is too homely; the tragedy of a sparrow 

 caught in its own toils, the identity of the titmice that visit his 

 garden, the morals of the wren and cuckoo ; while the larger 

 problems of migration and development have for him an interest 

 inseparable from asking questions of Nature at first hand." 



Daily Graphic. "A more complete monograph on the bird- 

 life of a single district we have rarely seen. ' Every kingdom, 

 every province, should have its own monographer/ says White, 

 and Mr. Boraston's observations fulfil this requirement as much 

 as could be desired either by the ornithological student in the 

 truest sense of the word, or those who love birds and bird 

 stories merely for what they are. The book is both ably written 

 and well illustrated." 



The Scotsman. "A charmingly written account of its 

 author's observations of the habits of the birds in his district. 

 It is a proper monograph of the ornithology of the corner of 

 England that it covers, full of scientific interest from the 

 minuteness, directness, and freshness of its observations, and 

 eminently readable from its close insight into the character of 

 the denizens of the air over the flat country by the Mersey and 

 beside the shores of the island of Anglesey. To read it is not 



