PREFACE 



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necessary. While many of them were designed 

 originally for the articles in which they now 

 reappear, several have been supplied from other 

 sources. Those which adorn the " Marsh Walk in 

 May," "Pagham Harbour," and "Bird-life on 

 the Broads," together with "The Cuckoo" and 

 "The Kite" have been borrowed from Johns' 

 British Birds in their Haunts ; for although that 

 little book was published so many years ago that 

 the copyright has long since expired, the illustra- 

 tions by the master hand of Joseph Wolf still remain 

 the best of their kind, being veritable portraits of 

 the birds they represent. 



For the cuts of the " Egyptian Fowler," the 

 " Mummied Cat," and " Mummy Case," which 

 appear in " The Origin of the Domestic Cat," I have 

 to thank Messrs George Bell & Sons, and to the 

 proprietors of Country Life I am particularly 

 indebted for permission to make use of half a dozen 

 illustrations from that journal, which have been 

 reduced in size, and adapted to present require- 

 ments. 



The " Dead Grouse," the " Kingfisher Hover- 

 ing," and "The Largest Birds that Fly," (pp. 335- 

 343), have been reproduced from original sketches 

 by Mr George Lodge, while Captain H. Hart 

 Davis has not only permitted the reduction of an 

 appropriate illustration (p. 91) from his Stalking 



