CONTENTS 



PAGE 



The Poaching Quarter The Bee as Robber The Loop of 

 the Rook Peasant Aristocracy The Echoed Redstart 

 Miniature Flower Life A Hard-bitten Farmer The Birds 

 in Gaol .214 



OCTOBER 



Downfall of the Year The Caterpillar as Mimic An Odyssey 

 of Rooks The Redbreast Threnody Pastime of Animals 

 The Brake Fern A Village Herb Doctor The Death of 

 Animals The Poetry of Flight A Treasury of Titmice 

 Ruse of a Brown Tail The Yellow Wood A Housewife's 

 Herbs . 240 



NOVEMBER 



A November Night Song and Sex Society and Safety A 

 Poacher in Petticoats Outwitting the Stoat Mobbing the 

 Brown Owl The Starlings' Eve The Last Ravens The 

 Oak Wood The Infinite Insect The Midget of Mammals 269 



DECEMBER 



The Stoat and Willow Wren Raven Reminiscences The Gold- 

 finch Dormitory Battle of the Birds The Storm Pines 

 At the Estuary The Cat as Mesmerizer The Earth-cloud 

 Gossamer Ragwort Gold and Gloom The Nuthatch's 

 Force Winter Wood Life Haunt of the Hoodies The 

 Erne The Gnats' Attendant . . . . . . 290 



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