Contents. 



CHAPTER XIV. 



PAGE 



The Rookery. Building Nests : Young Birds : Eook- 

 Shooting: Stealing Rooks: Antics in the Air: Mode 

 of Flight : White Rooks 235 



CHAPTER XV. 



Rooks Retuknixg to Roost. Vast Flocks : Rook Parlia- 

 ment : The two Rook Armies and their Routes : Rook 

 Laws, Traditions, and Ancient History : ' Throws ' of 

 Timber: Thieving Jackdaws 249 



CHAPTER XVI. 



Notes on Birds. Nightingales: Chaffinches: Migration: 

 Packing : Intermarriage : Peewits : Crows : Cuckoo's 

 Flight: Golden-crested Wren 262 



CHAPTER XVII. 



Notes on the Year. The Two Natiu-al Eras : Spiders : 

 The Seasons represented together : A Murderous 

 Wasp : Feng-shm : The Bird's White Elephant : Hedge- 

 Memoranda 278 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



Sxake-Lore. Snakes Swallowing Frogs : Swimming ; 

 Fond of ililk : Trapping Snakes : Frogs Climbing : 

 Toads in Trees. — The Brook. The Hatch : King- 

 fishers' Haunts and Nests 296 



CHAPTER XIX. 



Course of tue Brook. The Birds' Bathing-place : 

 Roach : Jacks on their Journeys : Stickleback's Nest : 

 Woodcock. — The Lake. Herons: Mussels: Reign 

 of Terror in the Lake ol-S 



