CONTENTS OF VOL. II. 



FIELD-NOTES FOR THE YEAR CONTINUED. 



CHAPTER XXI. 

 OCTOBER.— PAET I. 



Migration of Birds — Quails — Arrival of Wild Geese — White- 

 fronted Goose — Arrival of Wild Swans j decrease of — Feast- 

 ings of our Ancestors — Food of Ducks, &c. — Field-mice — 

 Eoe feeding — Hawks — Peregrine and Wild Duck — Train- 

 ing of Hawks — Migration of Eagles . . • Page 1 



CHAPTER XXII. 

 OCTOBER.— PAET II. 



A SEA-SIDE -WALK IN OCTOBER. 



Beauty of a fine October morning — Departure and arrival of 

 Birds — A walk along the Coast — The Goosander — Golden 

 Eye and Morillon — Plovers — Widgeon ; habits of in Feed- 

 ing ; occasionally breed in Scotland — Sands of the Bay — 

 Flounders — Herons — Curlews, Peewits, &c. — Oyster-birds 



— INIussel Scarps — Sea View — Long-tail Duck — Mallards 



— Velvet Ducks ; mode of Feeding — Eabbits and Foxes — 

 Formation of the Sand Hills ; remains of Antiquity 

 found in them — Seals — Salmon-fishers — Old Man catch- 

 ing Flounders — Swans — Unauthorized Fox-chace — Black 

 Game — Roe . . . . . . • . 17 



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