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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