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Calcutta ( 1901 ), Indian Waders ( 1906 ), and other works on 
Indian birds and aviculture, and on his return to England 
produced the three undernoted books relating to British birds. 
He edited the Avicultural Magazine in 1909 - 10 , and has written 
articles in various journals. He also wrote, in collaboration 
with Mr. Douglas Dewar, The Making of Species ( 1909 ). 
*1907. Ornithological and other Oddities. London : 1907. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, p. 314. Chapter on Some London Birds 
at pp. 123-29, and various other references to British birds. 
Birds of the Country-Side. A Handbook of Familiar British 
Birds. With 12 coloured plates, 118 ill. from photographs, 
etc. London (Hutchinson) : 1907. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. xv + pp. 190, with 12 col. pi. and ill. 
1910. Eggs and Nests of British Birds. With coloured reproductions of 
154 Eggs from Nature, etc. Ib. : 1910. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. xvi + pp. 231, with 20 col. pi. and 
other ill. 
Fisher (Major Charles Hawkins), oh. 1901 
Major Fisher, of The Castle, Stroud, Gloucestershire, one 
of the best known and most experienced of modern English 
falconers, was not an author by choice, for it was entirely 
due to the efforts of his friend, Mr. J. E. Harting, that he 
was induced to dictate and publish his Reminiscences , which 
contain his experiences for a period of nearly fifty years. He 
relates that it was in 1858 , when he had missed a train at 
Thetford, Norfolk, in returning home to Gloucestershire, 
that he first encountered a falconer in the person of John 
Pells, deputy of the Duke of St. Albans, Hereditary Grand 
Falconer of England, and from this chance meeting came to 
embrace the sport with such enthusiasm. Major Fisher died 
in October 1901 , and a memoir of him by Mr. Harting will 
be found in the Field of November 2 in that year. 
1871. [With Gr. E. Freeman and others.] Prize Essays on Falconry : sub- 
mitted to the Barnet Committee of the Alexandra Park with the 
object of suggesting the best means of reviving the practice of 
Falconry. Adjudicated upon by Lord Lilford, Lieut. -Col. Delme 
Badcliffe, and E. C. Newcome. London : 1871. 
Collation— 1 vol. sm. 8vo, pp. 82. 
1889. Modern Falconry. ( Proc . Cotteswold Nat. F.C. x. pp. 39-70, pi.) 
