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BIRDS IN THE CALENDAR

BY F. G. AFLALO

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 .

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

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