further merit of being written in a pleasantly colloquial and 

 unaffected style." — Neivcastle Journal. 



" Admirable alike in its method and classification, in its vast 

 comprehensiveness, in the research and knowledge it displays. . . . 

 The non-scientific reader will find here a book treating of a fascinat- 

 ing subject in a manner that has a strange magnetism." — Hexham 

 Courant. 



"A breath of the moor and a whiff of the sea exhale from these 

 pages of vivid and picturesque description. . . . The author is 

 steeped, so to speak, in knowledge of the technique of wildfowling. 

 The spirited pen-and-ink sketches, by the author himself, are 

 excellent." — Glasgoiv Dally Herald. 



"Messrs. Gurney & Jackson, London, have published a second 

 edition of a work which, while appealing specially to ornithologists, 

 is capable of holding the fascinated interest of a much wider reading 

 public; its general scheme, indeed, is, as the author justly claims 

 in the preface, of a character well calculated to hold the attention 

 of the average reader who possesses some love for the 'out-bye' 

 country and its bird-life in their wilder aspects. The whole book, 

 in its fine and lucid descriptions of bird-life on moorland and sea, now 

 redolent of sweet country breezes, now smacking of the glorious ozone, 

 is a storehouse of perfect delight to the lover of nature who possesses 

 even only a superficial acquaintance with Mr. Chajjman's winged 

 friends. Altogether * Bird-Life of the Borders ' is a veritably en- 

 trancing book ; and it has been right worthily clothed by Messrs. 

 Gurney k Jackson in a form which, from every standpoint, is as 

 admirable a specimen of modern publication as one could desire." — • 

 Morpeth Herald. 



" To those who have never read Mr. Abel Chapman's delightfully 

 informative volume entitled ' Bird-Life of the Borders,' an oppor- 

 tunity is now presented, as a new revised edition has been issued 

 by Messrs. Gurney &. Jackson at 14*;. net. As a faithful record 

 of bird-life on moorland and sea we know of no more interesting 

 work than the one before us, and the whole book teems with 

 practical notes as a result of over forty years' careful observation. 

 It is one of the most valuable records of wild life ever written, and 

 the talented author's clever sketches, as well as his writing, add in 

 no small measure to the general excellence of the volume. We 

 never remember reading a book with so much pleasure and profit, 

 and we fervently wish that every lover of Nature was as observant 

 as Mr. Chapman. His enthusiasm for wild life is infectious, but 

 the reader must read this really delightful book for himself and 

 judge whether we overpraise it in any way. It is a model of keen 

 observation and systematic note-making, and might be emulated 

 to advantage by all lovers of wild life." — The Naturalist's Quarterly 

 Review. 



