iv PREFACE 



Each volume of the present Series will, 

 therefore, be devoted to a bird, beast, or fish. 

 Their origin will be traced, their birth and 

 breeding described, every known method of cir- 

 cumventing and killing them not omitting the 

 methods employed by the poacher will be 

 explained with special regard to modern de- 

 velopments, and they will only be left when on 

 the table in the most appetising forms which 

 the delicate science of cookery has discovered. 



ALFRED E. T. WATSON. 



