INTRODUCTION. 
XXV. 
Haunts " before he came to live at Winchester. When 
at Helston School he did much to encourage Kingsley 
in his study of Natural History. 
John Keble was vicar of Hursley from 1836 till his 
death in 1866; he also has not failed to write of our 
county birds. 
Charles Kingsley lived at Eversley, first as curate 
and then as rector, from 1842 till his death in 1875. 
His "Charm of Birds" was first published in Frazer^s 
Magazine in July, 1867 ; it is now included in the " Prose 
Idylls." 
The List of Birds in Longcroft's " Hundred of 
Bosmere " was compiled from observations made in the 
neighbourhood of Havant, but appears to have been 
extracted from an earlier work by the Rev. W. Bingley, 
of which a few copies only were printed in 18 17. 
The late Mr. A. G. More contributed a valuable list of 
the Birds of the Isle of Wight to Venables' " History of 
the Island " (i860). 
Alfred, Lord Tennyson lived at Farringford, near 
Freshwater, in the Isle of Wight, from 1853 until his death 
in 1892. 
He was a keen observer of birds, and has portrayed 
many of their ways and motions. He used to visit the 
New Forest with Lord Lilford, in order to be introduced to 
some of the rarer species. The author of the " Birds of 
Tennyson " has collected and classified the poet's allusions 
in an interesting volume, admirably illustrated by Mr. 
G. E. Lodge. 
The Rev. Richard Warner, of Lymington, wrote most 
complete accounts of the chief features of the county and 
the Isle of Wight, with numerous notes on their birds. 
John R. Wise's " New Forest," first published in 1862, 
