SOME TAYSIDE SUMMER 

 VISITORS 



To walk along a riverside is always pleasant ; 

 but it is doubly pleasing during the summer 

 months, especially if the traveller happens 

 to be a birdlover. 



Tayside is one of the many charming 

 spots to be found in " Caledonia stern 

 and wild," which is not only a meet nurse 

 for the poetic but also for the ornithological 

 child. 



The bird-population of Britain is roughly 

 estimated at nearly four hundred species, 

 of which number about one-eighth are 

 summer visitors to' our shores. These 

 feathered travellers pass their winters in 

 far southern climes, and when early spring 

 arrives in the north temperate zone are 

 dominated by the marvellous impulse to 

 migrate northwards in order to produce 

 their young in their own birthplace. 



Though to-day much is known about 



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