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Title: Birds in the Calendar
Author: Frederick G. Aflalo
Release Date: December 9, 2008 [EBook #27465]
Language: English
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BIRDS
IN THE CALENDAR
BY F. G. AFLALO
[Decoration]
LONDON: MARTIN SECKER
NUMBER FIVE JOHN STREET ADELPHI
_First Published 1914_
Transcriber's Note:
Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Common
bird names remain as originally printed. Inconsistent hyphenation
has been standardised. The oe ligature is represented by [oe].
CONTENTS
PAGE
January: The Pheasant 11
February: The Woodcock 21
March: The Woodpigeon 33
April: Birds in the High Hall Garden 45
May: The Cuckoo 55
June: Voices of the Night 67
July: Swifts, Swallows and Martins 79
August: The Seagull 91
September: Birds in the Corn 103
October: The Moping Owl 113
November: Waterfowl 125
December: The Robin Redbreast 137
NOTE
These sketches of birds, each appropriate to one month of the twelve,
originally appeared in _The Outlook_, to the Editor and Proprietors of
which review I am indebted for permission to reprint them in book form.
F. G. A.
EASTER, 1914.
JANUARY
THE PHEASANT
THE PHEASANT
As birds are to be considered throughout these pages from any standpoint
but that of sport, much that is of interest in connection with a bird
essentially the sportsman's must necessarily be omitted. A
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