CONTENTS ix 



CHAPTER VII 



WILD BIRDS 



RESIDENT 



Section i. Insectivorous and Harmless: PAGE 



Kestrel Barn Owl Common Creeper Wren Golden-crested 

 Wren Long-tailed Titmouse Cole Titmouse- Marsh Titmouse 

 Hedge Sparrow Goldfinch Woodpeckers Lapwing . 152 



Section 2. Useful and Partly Injurious : 



Nuthatch Redbreast Blue Titmouse Great Titmouse Meadow 

 Pipit Missel Thrush Song Thrush Blackbird Jay Magpie 

 Rook Jackdaw Starling Hawfinch Chaffinch Greenfinch 

 Common Linnet House Sparrow Tree Sparrow Bun ting 

 Yellow-hammer Skylark Bullfinch Wood Pigeon . . .156 



Section 3. Destructive to Game and Poultry : 



Sparrow Hawk Hen Harrier Goshawk Owls Carrion Crow 

 Hooded Crow . . . . . . ... 196 



AQUATIC OR WATER BIRDS 

 RESIDENT 



Section i . Insectivorous and Harmless : 



Wagtails Dipper . . . . . . . . 200 



Section 2. Partly Useful and Partly Injurious : 



Kingfisher Heron Curlews Waterhens Coots Little . Grebe 



Common Gull Black-headed Gull 201 



CHAPTER VIII 

 MIGRATORY BIRDS 



Section i. Insectivorous and Harmless : 



Nightjar Swift Swallow Grasshopper and Sedge Warblers 

 Nightingale Chiffchaff Willow Warbler Whitethroat Whin- 

 chat Redstart Grey Wagtail Titlark Flycatcher Red-backed 

 Shrike Siskin Redpole Wryneck Cuckoo Sandpiper Wood- 

 cock Snipe . , , ,. , , ... . 205 



