BY THE STUDY FIRE 167 



and research. Every fisherman takes a delight 

 in the birds that he sees and hears all the year 

 round, whether he knows their names or not. 

 Sooner or later he does want to know them ; 

 when he does, the first thing that he looks for 

 is a list : (a) of residents who are always with 

 us ; (b) of those who come to this country to 

 breed ; and (c) of those who visit us in the 

 autumn, winter and spring, but go elsewhere 

 to breed. These three classes would do to 

 begin with, and I do not know of any book, 

 published at a price attainable by the average 

 fisherman, that gives them. The other classes 

 would be (d) occasional visitors who used to 

 breed here ; and (e) rare stragglers, seen, but 

 never known to have bred here. 



In case any brother-fisherman should find 

 it of value, I will here give a list, prepared by 

 an expert friend, of (c) the birds that visit 

 us from abroad in the autumn, winter and 

 spring. There are fifty-five of them, and this 

 is the list : 



PERCHERS (11). Redwing. Fieldfare. Black redstart. 

 Robin (continental form). Greater or Greenland 

 wheatear. Eversman's willow-warbler. Great grey 

 shrike. Scandinavian rock-pipit. Lapland bunting. 



HERON TRIBE (1). Spoonbill. 



HAWK TRIBE (3). Honey-buzzard. Rough-legged buzzard. 

 Marsh-harrier. 



