<p><strong>Table of Contents</strong> <br /><br />PREFACE<br /><strong>BIRDS IN A VILLAGE</strong><br />EXOTIC BIRDS FOR BRITAIN<br />MOOR−HENS IN HYDE PARK<br />THE EAGLE AND THE CANARY<br />CHANTICLEER<br />IN AN OLD GARDEN<br /><strong>BIRDS IN A CORNISH VILLAGE</strong><br />ITAKING STOCK OF THE BIRDS<br />IIDO STARLINGS PAIR FOR LIFE?<br />IIIVILLAGE BIRDS IN WINTER<br />IVINCREASING BIRDS IN BRITAIN<br />VTHE DAW SENTIMENT<br />VISTORY OF A JACKDAW<br /><br />PREFACE <br /><br />This ebook is more than a mere reprint of Birds in a Village first published in 1893. That was my first ebook about bird life, with some impressions of rural scenes, in England; and, as is often the case with a first ebook, its author has continued to cherish a certain affection for it. On this account it pleased me when its turn came to be reissued, since this gave me the opportunity of mending some faults in the portions retained and of throwing out a good deal of matter which appeared to me not worth keeping. <br /><br />The first portion, "Birds in a Village," has been mostly rewritten with some fresh matter added, mainly later observations and incidents introduced in illustration of the various subjects discussed. For the concluding portion of the old ebook, which has been discarded, I have substituted entirely new matter-the part entitled "Birds in a Cornish Village." <br /><br />Between these two long parts there are five shorter essays which I have retained with little alteration,