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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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