PREFACE WITH very kindly reception by the press, and a steady public appreciation, have led to this endeaour to make my IittIe book more complete, by preparing an Enlarged Edition, including all British-breeding birds that have now any reasonable claim for treatmed. The work deals with a number of more or less familiar winter visitors that do not stay to breed with us however, this is perhaps an advantage nowadays, when we all travel much and far. As mentioned in the preface of the first Edition, this book is not intended to encourage the useless collecting of bids eggs from a mere motive,...