Manual of British Birds, by Howard Saunders, 2nd ed. (Gurney & Jackson, London), pp. 264, 266.
History of the Birds of Europe, by Henry E. Dresser, F.L.S., F.Z.S. (1871-1881), vol. iv. p. 617.
A Practical Handbook of British Birds, edited by H. F. Witherby, vol. ii. pp. 7, 9. Witherby & Co., London, 1920.
Handbook to the Birds of Australia, by John Gould, F.R.S. (1865), vol. i. p. 104. London.
Vol. ii. p. 305, Porter, 6 Tenterden Street, W.; Dulau & Co., Soho Square, W., 1884.
Avicultural Magazine, Third Series, vol. x. No. 4, February 1919, pp. 73-74.
Vol. iv. p. 616.
British Birds Magazine, vol. xvi. No. 1 (June 1, 1922), p. 31.
The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma Birds, vol. iii. p. 173. Published under the authority of the Secretary of State for India in Council. Taylor & Francis, London, 1895.
Ibid. p. 174.
March 15, 1923.
Ornithological Dictionary of Birds, by Col. G. Montagu: 2nd edition by James Rennie, London, 1831.
Rough Shooting, by Richard Clapham, ch. vii. pp. 125-126. Heath Cranton, Ltd., London, 1922.
In One Hundred Years in the Highlands, p. 132 (Edward Arnold, London, 1921), Mr. Osgood Mackenzie quotes an extract from a diary of his uncle, Dr. John Mackenzie of Eileanach, in which an incident of this kind is described as having occurred in Kinlochewe Forest.
Adam & Charles Black, London, 1910.
See, for instance, the opinions of Mr. F. M. Halford in The Dry-Fly Man’s Handbook, p. 395 (George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., London); Mr. P. D. Malloch at p. 179 in the work previously cited; Mr. J. J. Armistead in An Angler’s Paradise, and how to obtain it; and Mr. Tom Speedy in The Natural History of Sport in Scotland with Rod and Gun (William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1920).
Martin Secker, London, 1917.
The Dry-Fly Man’s Handbook, p. 319 (George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., London).
A Lame Dog’s Diary, by S. Macnaughtan, pp. 239, 240 (John Murray, London, 1915).
“Canadian Boat Song,” St. Andrew’s Treasury of Scottish Verse, by Mrs. Alexander Lawson and Alexander Lawson, pp. 133, 134 (A. & C. Black, Ltd., London, 1920).
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Transcriber’s note:
Inconsistent use of hyphens, such as burn-side/burnside and gyr-falcon/gyrfalcon, has been retained.
Page viii: M^cIver (superscript c) changed to McIver to match other instances in the book.
Index: “Cats, killed by eagles, 38” changed to “Cats, killed by eagles, 138”.
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