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. Commonbird names remain as originally printed. Inconsistent hyphenationhas been standardised.

CONTENTS

PAGE
January: The Pheasant11
February: The Woodcock21
March: The Woodpigeon33
April: Birds in the High Hall Garden45
May: The Cuckoo55
June: Voices of the Night67
July: Swifts, Swallows and Martins79
August: The Seagull91
September: Birds in the Corn103
October: The Moping Owl113
November: Waterfowl125
December: The Robin Redbreast137

NOTE

These sketches of birds, each appropriateto one month of the twelve, originally appearedin The Outlook, to the Editor andProprietors of which review I am indebtedfor permission to reprint them in book form.

F. G. A.

Easter, 1914.


JANUARY
THE PHEASANT

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THE PHEASANT

As birds are to be considered throughoutthese pages from any standpoint butthat of sport, much that is of interest inconnection with a bird essentially thesportsman's must necessarily be omitted. Atthe same time, although this gorgeouscreature, the chief attraction of social gatheringsthroughout the winter months, appealschiefly to the men who shoot and eat it, it isnot uninteresting to the naturalist with opportunitiesfor studying its habits underconditions more favourable than those encounteredwhen in pursuit of it with a gun.

In the first place, with the probable exceptionof the swan, of which something issaid on a later page, the pheasant standsalone among the birds of our woodlands inits personal interest for the historian. It isnot, in fact, a British bird, save by acclimatisation,at all, and is generally regardedas a legacy of the Romans. The time andmanner of its introduction into Britain are,it is true, veiled in obscurity. What we know,...

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