Wild Life in a Southern County 



CHAPTER VII. 



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THE FARMHOUSE. Traditions : Hunting Pictures : The Farmer's 

 Year: Sport: The Auction Festival : A Summer's Day: Beauty 

 of Wheat . 102 



CHAPTER VIII. 



BIRDS OF THE FARMHOUSE. Speech of a Starling : Population of 

 a Gable : The King of the Hedge : The Thrush's Anvil . . 120 



CHAPTER IX. 



THE ORCHARD. Emigrant Martins : The Missel-Thrush : Caravan 

 Koute of Birds and Animals : A Fox in Ambush : A Snake in a 

 Clock . , . . 137 



CHAPTER X. 



THE WOODPILE. Lizards : Sheds and Eickyard : The Witches' 

 Briar : Insects : Plants, Flowers, and Fruit . . . 154 



CHAPTER XI. 



THE HOME-FIELD. Hazel Corner: The Divining Eod: Rabbits' 

 Holes : The Corncrake : Ventriloquism of Birds : Hedge-Fruit . 170 



CHAPTER XII. 



THE ASH COPSE. The Nightingale : Cloud of Starlings: Hedge- 

 hogs. HERON'S MEAD : Moorhens. Among the Heeds . .185 



CHAPTER XIII. 



THE WARREN. Rabbit Burrows : Ferrets : The Quarry. THE 

 FOREST : Squiirels : Deer : Dying Eabbit : A Hawk , . 199 



