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INTRODUCTION. 
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has 
several branches in the county, and has arranged lectures 
in quite forty of our Hampshire towns and villages. It 
has also established Bird and Tree Day in our midst. As 
an instance of the result of these and similar efforts to 
teach a more humane attitude towards the birds, we some- 
times find the nests in our lanes clearly marked by the 
trampled state of the herbage, because the children go and 
look at the young birds every day on their way to and 
from school. 
The skilful pencil of Mr. G. E. Lodge will be recognised 
in several of our illustrations. 
Others have been generously given by Mr. Smith- 
Whiting, of Carlton Road, Southampton, to whom we are 
greatly indebted for his generosity. 
J. E. KELSALL, 
The Rectory, New Milton, Hants. 
P. W. MUNN, 
Laverstoke, ?iear Whitchurch, Hants. 
1905. 
