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Section 2. Partly Useful and Partly Injurious : 



Nuthatch Redbreast Blue Titmouse Great Titmouse Meadow 

 Pipit Missel Thrush Blackbird Song Thrush Jay Magpie- 

 Rook Jackdaw Starling Grosbeak Chaffinch Common Lin- 

 netGreenfinch House Sparrow Tree Sparrow Bunting- 

 Yellow-hammer Field or Skylark Wood Lark Bullfinch 

 Ringdove Stockdove Rock Pigeon. .. . * . 35 



Section 3. Destructive to Game, Poultry, and Pigeons : 



Sparrow-hawk Hen Harrier Gyr-Falcon Goshawk Long- eared 

 Owl Tawny Owl Carrion Crow Hooded Crow . , . " . 5 T 



AQUATIC OR WATER BIRDS 



RESIDENT 



Section i. Insectivorous and Harmless: 



Pied Wagtail Dipper . '. . -.--.-. , . ... 55 



Section 2. Partly Useful and Partly Injurious: 



Kingfisher Heron Curlew Waterhen Coot Crested Grebe- 

 Common Gull . . . 5 6 



CHAPTER III 

 MIGRATORY BIRDS 



Section i . Insectivorous and Harmless : 



Nightjar Common Swift Common Swallow House Martin 

 Sand Martin Grasshopper Warbler Sedge Warbler Nightingale 

 Chiff chaff Willow Warbler Common Whitethroat Lesser 

 Whitethroat Wheatear Whinchat Redstart Grey Wagtail- 

 Yellow Wagtail White Wagtail Tree Pipit Spotted Flycatcher 

 Red-backed Shrike Grey Shrike Siskin Redpole Wryneck 

 Cuckoo Common Sandpiper Woodcock Snipe Great Snipe 

 Ruff . V. . . . . . . . . 62 



Section 2. Partly Useful and Partly Injurious: 



Hobby Short-eared Owl Blackcap Warbler Garden Warbler- 

 Fieldfare Redwing Turtledove Corncrake . '.''-,'' . 74 



Section 3. Destructive : 



Crossbill Common Tern , . r . . - - -, . . 79 



