KAPTORE8. 



INTRODUCTION. 



" The wood, the mountain, and the barren waste, the 

 craggy rock, the river, and the lake, are never searched 

 in vain ; each have their peculiar inhabitants, that enliven 

 the scene and please the philosophic eye." MONTAGUE. 



IN full accordance with the sentiments of the 

 author we have quoted above, and to whom the 

 British ornithologist is so greatly indebted, have 

 we often wandered in the recesses of our woods 

 and the passes of far-stretching and craggy moun- 

 tains, searched around our wild or beautiful lakes 

 and our precipitous sea-coasts, and we have 

 never been disappointed. If we did not always 

 meet with some species new to our collection, we 

 found fresh facts to record of those we already 

 possessed ; and we delighted in the landscape 

 enlivened by the airy creatures whose structure 

 we had been examining, and whose habits we 

 could there survey so freely. What would be the 

 landscape without its living inhabitants ? The 



