AUTHOR'S NOTE 



IT must be obvious to every Nature student that in writing such a book as this the 

 author must be very largely a compiler, and I desire, at the outset, to acknowledge 

 the very great debt that I owe to the writings of many experts and specialists in the 

 various branches of British Natural History referred to in the following pages. 



Amongst many others, I would name with gratitude the following : Lydekker's 

 Mammals, Sir Harry Johnston's British Mammals, Kirkman's British Birds, R. Soutrr's 

 British Butterflies and Moths, Kirby's volumes on the same subject, Bastin's Insects, 

 Bentham's Flora, Johns's Flowers of the Field, Hulme's Familiar Wild Flowers, etc., etc 



a N. s. 



BlSHOPSTOKE, 

 April, 1921. 



