V. 



CAMEOS OF WILD LIFE. 



To him who is in the habit of spending his idle moments 

 in the woods or by the waterside in quest of knowledge, 

 the few following extracts from the note-book of a 

 fellow-naturalist, may prove of interest ; whilst to 

 readers who are not so versed in the ways of wild 

 creatures, and have had but little experience with the 

 country and its charms, they may serve as an incentive 

 to a study which is full of unrecorded pleasures. They 

 are given as they were transcribed, some of them long, 

 long years ago, but each recall a fund of pleasant 

 memories bygone days which shadow-like have 

 vanished in the past, yet left the record of their innocent 

 delights behind them. 



A Moorland in Spring. 



Our last visit to the moors some weeks ago found 

 little change to chronicle. The Wheatears were back 

 again in the old stone quarries, and a pair of Stonechats 

 were seen in the Blackbrook gorse. The Willow Wrens 



