CONTENTS. XI 



CHAPTEE V. 

 A Midland Village: Kailwat and Woodland. 



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Bailways favourable to birds. — Whinohat and Stonecbat. — Pecu- 

 liarities of the Buntings. — Nests by the railway. — Eing-ousel. — Song 

 of the Tree-pipit. — Pipits, Larks, Wagtails. — Predatory birds of the 

 woods. — Interview with a Grasshopper Warbler ; its ' reel.' — Beauty 

 of the Nightingale ; its habits and song. — Song-birds of the woods. — 

 Woodpeckers. — Birds of the hills. — Local migrations during the year. 90 



CHAPTEE VI. 



The Bieds of Virgil. 



Virgil's haunts in Italy, in boyhood and manhood. — Vu'gil true to 

 nature. — Pigeons in his poems. — Crane and Stork ; their migrations. — ■ 

 Corvus and comix. — Swans. — The ' alcyon,' in Latin and Greek 

 ornithology. — Voice of the Kingfisher. — The ' acalanthis ' warblers 

 in Italy and Greece. — Virgils' sea-birds and swallows. — Nightingale 

 in Homer and Virgil. — Simile of ghosts and birds in Sixth Aeneid. — 

 Autumn migrations from the north . . . .... 107 



