Preface 



SOME additional results of wanderings in bird- 

 land since the publication of Woodland, Field, 

 and Shore, are given in this book. I have endeavoured 

 to picture with pen and camera the homes and haunts 

 of those birds which I have met with. Some of these 

 are well known, and may be seen during an afternoon 

 ramble in any of our country lanes and woods ; 

 others are rare, and their haunts are little known ; 

 some readers of this book may never have seen such, 

 and therefore I hope that my accounts of their wild 

 homes will be found acceptable. 



I have to thank the following gentlemen for per- 

 mission most kindly given to photograph birds and 

 nests in their grounds : The Right Hon. Sir Charles 

 W. Dilke, Bart, M.P., John W. Ford, Esq., J.P., Colonel 

 Evan Thomas, Captain* John Taylor, Captain Otto 

 Gurlitt, and A. H. Paynter, Esq. I have also specially 

 to thank Ernest Smith, Esq., and W. K. Robertson, 

 Esq., for the opportunities afforded for photographing 

 birds and nests in their grounds, which in the spring 

 and summer are crowded with bird life. Mr. Percy 



