BY THE SAME AUTHOR 
Medium 8vo, 472 pp., with Map, 26 Full-page and numerous 
Text Illustrations. Price 14s. net. 
BIRD-LIFE OF THE BORDERS 
ON MOORLAND AND SEA 
WITH FAUNAL NOTES EXTENDING OVER FORTY YEARS 
BY 
ABEL CHAPMAN, F.Z.S. 
Member of the British Ornithologists’ Union 
AUTHOR OF “THE ART OF WILDFOWLING,” “ WILD NORWAY” 
AND “WILD SPAIN” 
(The last jointly with Walter J. Buck, British Vice-Consul at Jerez) 
(PUBLISHED BY GURNEY & JACKSON, LONDON) 
This work was published in 1889, and having for several years 
past been very scarce, a new edition has been called for. Though 
nominally a second edition it is in effect an entirely new work, re¬ 
written upon twenty years’ further observation and study. The 
field of observation includes the whole wild range of “ Cheviots’ 
mountains lone,” with their subsidiary foot-hills lying along both the 
English and Scottish sides of the Border—say, 1,000 square miles of 
mountain and moor. 
The subjects treated are not confined to bird-life. The whole 
fauna—wild beasts and birds, fishes and reptiles—of one of the 
widest and wildest virgin solitudes remaining in this country are 
portrayed in their daily life throughout the year by one who is no 
mere dry-bones naturalist, but who sees and appreciates the whole 
beauty of wild Nature with the trained eye of hunter, angler and 
wildfowler, and who writes, moreover, with deep love of his subject 
and the practical experience of a lifetime. 
The second section treats of the bird-life (chiefly wildfowl) of the 
Northern sea-board; and being founded on long years of solid ex¬ 
perience in wildfowling afloat, forms, as herein revised, as complete a 
