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Title: Bird Watching

Author: Edmund Selous

Release Date: October 10, 2015 [eBook #50175]

Language: English

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THE
HADDON HALL
LIBRARY

EDITED
BY THE
MARQUESS OF GRANBY
AND MR.
GEORGE A. B. DEWAR

All rights reserved

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Male Oyster-Catchers Piping to the Female.

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BIRD WATCHING

BY
EDMUND SELOUS

LONDON
J. M. DENT & CO., ALDINE HOUSE
29 & 30 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
1901

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CONTENTS

	CHAP.	PAGE
	TABLE OF CONTENTS	v
	LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS	vii
	PREFACE	ix
I.	WATCHING GREAT PLOVERS, ETC.	3
II.	WATCHING RINGED PLOVERS, REDSHANKS, PEEWITS, ETC.	21
III.	WATCHING STOCK-DOVES, WOOD-PIGEONS, SNIPE, ETC.	35
IV.	WATCHING WHEATEARS, DABCHICKS, OYSTER-CATCHERS, ETC.	67
V.	WATCHING GULLS AND SKUAS	96
VI.	WATCHING RAVENS, CURLEWS, EIDER-DUCKS, ETC.	129
VII.	WATCHING SHAGS AND GUILLEMOTS	163
VIII.	WATCHING BIRDS AT A