CONTENTS. 



FIELD-NOTES FOR THE YEAR— Continued. 

 CHAPTER XXI. 



OCTOBER PART I. 



Migration of Birds — Quails — Arrival of Wild-geese — White- 

 fronted Goose — Arrival of Wild-swans ; decrease of — Feast- 

 ings of our Ancestors — Food of Ducks, etc. — Field-mice — 

 Roe feeding — Hawks — Peregrine and Wild -duck — Train- 

 ing of Hawks — Migration of Eagles . . . Page 1 

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CHAPTER XXII. 



OCTOBER PART II. 



A SEA-SIDE WALK IN OCTOBER. 



Beauty of a fine October morning — Departure and arrival of 

 Birds — A walk along tlie Coast — The Goosander — Golden- 

 eye and Morillon — Plovers — Widgeon; habits of in feed- 

 ing ; occasionally breed in Scotland — Sands of the Bay — 

 Flounders — Herons — Curlews, Peewits, etc. — Oyster-birds 

 — Mussel - scarps — Sea View — Long - tails — Mallards — 

 Velvet Ducks; mode of feeding — Rabbits and Foxes — 

 Formation of the Sandhills ; remains of antiquity 

 found in them — Seals — Salmon - fishers — Old Man catching 

 Flounders — Swans — Unauthorised Fox-chase — Black Game 

 —Roe 17 



