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iv CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER III. 



PAG 



Beauty of Streams and their Margins— Flowers and Birds peculiar 

 to these Places— Sedge Warbler— Its Power of Imitating otlier 

 Birds— Reed Warbler— Beauty of its Nest— Grassliopper Warbler 

 —Ventriloquising Power of this Bird— Pied Wagtail— Continental 

 Species of Wagtail— Cuckoo placing its Egg in Nest of Wagtail 

 —Grey Wagtail— Yellow Wagtail 



CHAPITER IV. 



Summer and the Cuckoo— Nightingale — Song joyous or sad- 

 Opinions of Poets — Description of its Song— Jealous Character 

 of this Bird— Blackcap— AlTection of this Bird to its Young and 

 to Man— Garden Warbler— Wliitethroat—Tjosser Wliitothroat . . VM 



CHAPTER V. 



Our Heath-lands during M' inter and Spring— Wheatcar—Singukr 

 Note— Autumnal Flight — Numbers taken in Traps — Stonechat — 

 Whinchat— Successful Imitation by Whinchat of Songs of other 

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CIIAITEU VI. 



Notes of various Birds in Autumn — Rc<ibrcast's Antumnal Song- 

 Familiarity of this Bird with Man— Song at other Sfuwns of the 

 Year — Robin a favourite Bird in many European Countries- 

 Old notion that it strewed with lieaves the I^xlirs of tho I'n- . 

 Iniried — Il^'ferenccs to <H;TtTil old Authors rrspcrtinjr this — 

 Pugnacity of the Robin — Redbreast useful in (ranlrns and 

 Orchards — Singular Plaee.s chosen by this Bird fur Building 

 l\ed.Nlart : Attachment to its Young— Bluc-thmatcd Warbler I * ' 



