Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Bird-Life of the Borders on Moorland and Sea: With Faunal Notes Extending Over Forty Years
The first edition of this work was published in 1889, and having for several years past been very scarce, a second edition has now been called for. To the preparation of this I have devoted more than a year's work and thought. The first section of the book - that relating to the Cheviots and moorlands of the Border - has been practically re written, and on a broader basis. The second part, which treats of the north-eastern sea-board, has needed less extension, since it was founded in the first instance on long years of solid experience in wildfowling a?oat; and, as herein revised, it now forms, I believe, as complete a delineation of the lives of these wild and scarce-known birds as any one man may hope to produce.
Since the publication of the original work, a grave calamity has befallen me in the loss of nearly all my earlier ornithological friends, particularly of two brothers - constant companions on fell and ?ood. This new edition has perforce been written alone, without that earlier assistance and sympathy. Fortunately there is one notable exception, and the same kind eye has revised the proof-sheets of this edition as in the first instance.
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