Contents. 



CHAPTER XIV. 



PAGE 



THE ROOKERY. Building Nests : Young Birds : Rook- 

 Shooting : Stealing ilooks : Antics in the Air : Mode 

 of Flight: White Rooks 235 



CHAPTER XV. 



ROOKS RETURNING TO ROOST. Vast Flocks : Rook Parlia- 

 ment : The two Rook Armies and their Routes : Rook 

 Laws, Traditions, and Ancient History: 'Throws' of 

 Timber: Thieving Jackdaws 249 



CHAPTER XVI. 



NOTES ON BIRDS. Nightingales: Chaffinches: Migration: 

 Packing : Intermarriage : Peewits : Crows : Cuckoo's 

 Flight : Golden-crested Wren 262 



CHAPTER XVII. 



NOTES ON THE YEAR. The Two Natural Eras : Spiders : 

 The Seasons represented together : A Murderous 

 Wasp : Feng-shui : The Bird's White Elephant : Hedge- 

 Memoranda 278 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



SNAKE-LORE. Snakes Swallowing Frogs : Swimming : 

 Fond of Milk: Trapping Snakes: Frogs Climbing: 

 Toads in Trees. THE BROOK. The Hatch: King- 

 fishers' Haunts and Nests 296 



CHAPTER XIX. 



COURSE OF THE BROOK. The Birds' Bathing-place: 

 Roach : Jacks on their Journeys : Stickleback's Nest : 

 Woodcock. .THE LAKE. Herons: Mussels: Reign 

 of Terror in the Lake . . . 313 



