ILLUSTRATIONS 



Selborne, from the Hanger ----- Frontispiece 



FACING PAGE 



The Upper Stream _ - - ^ 



" The old hollow lane to Alton " - - - - 1 1 



Bean's Pond - - 21 



Wolmer Pond. " On the face of this expanse of waters, 

 and perfectly secure from fowlers, lie all day long, 

 in the winter season, vast flocks of ducks, teals and 

 widgeons " - - - 23 



Wolmer Forest. " A hungry, sandy, barren waste " - 24 



" The Swallows and Martins clustering on the chimneys 



of the neighbouring cottages " - 58 



The Wren. "Wrens sing all the winter through, frost 



excepted " 89 



" The Skylark sings — 'rising, suspended, and falling'" - 106 



The Stock-Dove - - 123 



Swallows. "They . . . then are conducted to the dead 

 leafless bough of some tree, where, sitting in a row, 

 they are attended with great assiduity" 147 



Young Sand-martins. " In the last week in June we have 



seen a row of these sitting on a rail" - 154 



