Vlll CONTENTS. 



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Insatiable Appetite of the ' Bird of Suction ' Rapid 

 Digestion Crepuscular Habits High-road Gunners 

 Netting Snares, Ancient and Modern The Old Poacher 

 and his Springe .138 



CHAPTER IX. 



Falconry Youthful Attempts in the 'Noble Art' 

 Heron Hawking The Look-out The Chace An Irish 

 Bog Fabulous Errors Magpie Hawking Colonel 

 Bonham's Hawking Experiences Scardroy Peregrine 

 Falcons Grouse Hawking Russian Setters The Gos- 

 hawk compared with the Peregrine Their respective 

 Merits How does the Falcon strike her Quarry 1 

 Woodcock Hawking Convincing Fact Anecdote The 

 Falcon's last Flight < Falcon' and < Tiercel' Wild 

 Duck, Blackcock, and Ptarmigan Hawking ' Playing' 

 the Hawks The Falcon at Sea Recognition and Re- 

 covery. 152 



CHAPTER X. 



Favourite Haunts of the Pheasant in a state of Nature 

 A more general Distribution of the Species desirable 

 Inefficiency of the Game laws Importance of a quiet 

 and secure Place of Retreat Asylum for Pheasants at 

 Walton Hall Descriptive Sketch Crowing of Cock 

 Pheasants Scenery Valley of the Rother Singular 

 Occurrence Importance of Evergreen Timber Trees in 

 Preserves 181 



CHAPTER XL 



Injuries inflicted on various Birds during the Breeding 

 Season Robbery of Eggs Plover's Eggs Eggs of Terns 

 and Gulls Blackheaded Gulls Preserves of those Birds 



