BY THE SAME AUTHOR 



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BIRD-LIFE OF THE BORDERS 

 ON MOORLAND AND SEA 



WITH FAUNAL NOTES EXTENDING OVER FORTY YEARS 



BY 



ABEL CHAPMAN, RZ.S. 



Member of the British Oriiith.o!o{iists' Union 



AUTHOR OF "the ART OF WILDFOWLING," "WILD NORWAY" 

 AND "wild SPAIN " 



(The last jointlj- with Waltkr J. Buck, British Vice-Consul at Jerez) 



(PUBLISHED BY GURNEY & JACKSON, LONDON) 



This work was published in 1889, and having for several yeai's 

 past been very scarce, a new edition has been called for. Though 

 nominally a second edition it is in effect an entirely new work, re- 

 written upon twenty years' further observation and study. The 

 field of obsei'vation includes the whole wild range of "Cheviots' 

 mountains lone," with their subsidiary foot-hills lying along both the 

 English and Scottish sides of the Border — say, 1,000 square miles of 

 mountain and moor. 



The subjects treated ai-e not confined to bird-life. The whole 

 fauna — wild beasts and birds, fishes and reptiles — of one of the 

 widest and wildest virgin solitudes remaining in this country are 

 portrayed in their daily life throughout the year by one who is no 

 mere dry-bones naturalist, but who sees and appreciates the whole 

 beauty of wild Nature with the trained eye of hunter, angler and 

 wildfowler, and who writes, moreover, with deep love of his subject 

 and the practical experience of a lifetime. 



The second section treats of the bird-life (chiefly wildfowl) of the 

 Northern sea-board ; and being founded on long years of solid ex- 

 perience in wildfowling afloat, foiTiis, as herein revised, as complete a 



