TABLE OF CONTENTS xiii 



CHAPTER X 



MIGRATION AND DISTRIBUTION 



EAGE 



Migration of birds Letter of Scandinavian Poet Newton's reply 

 Theories of migration Torpidity and other superstitions 

 Gatke Mr. Eagle-Clarke's observations at lighthouses 

 Destruction of life History of migration Aristotle and 

 Pliny Geographical distribution Ptarmigan Origin of life 

 Holarctic Region A, R. Wallace Address at Manchester . 160 



CHAPTER XI 



GILBERT WHITE AND OTHERS 



Gilbert White Reviews of " Selborne "Coleridge's Marginalia 

 Gilbert White's wig" Selborne " a classic Mr. Holt- White's 

 "Life " " Molly " letters Mulso's letters Thomas Bewick 

 Willughby Ray Gould F. Buckland T. Edwards R. 

 Jefferies H. Seebohm 186 



CHAPTER XII 



METHODS OF WORK 



Accuracy Care in identification The Scaup Duck Bustard 

 Great Black Woodpecker Vipers swallowing young Slow- 

 ness in work Yarrell's "British Birds " Classification- 

 Linn aean system Nomenclature Subspecies and trinomials . 207 



CHAPTER XIII 



LANGUAGES AND WORDS 



Correspondence with Professor Skeat De Avosetta Capercaillie 



Mistletoe Thrush Decoy Okapi No Snakes in Iceland . 220 



CHAPTER XIV 



WRITING AND CONSERVATISM 



Letter-writing B. M. Cats. Dedications Zoological anecdote- 

 Professor Babington and suet puddings " Dictionary of Birds " 

 Publishers Revisions Style Reviewers The Cuckow 

 Philosophy Politics and College politics Mr. A. C. Benson's 

 reminiscences Bores Interest in young naturalists . . 234 



