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These sketches of birds, each appropriate to one month of the twelve, originally appeared in The Outlook, to the Editor and Proprietors of which review I am indebted for permission to reprint them in book form. | 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. Common bird names remain as originally printed. Inconsistent hyphenation has been standardised. CONTENTS PAGE January The Pheasant 11 February The Woodcock 21 March The Woodpigeon 33 April Birds in the High Hall Garden 45 May The Cuckoo 55 June Voices of the Night 67 July Swifts Swallows and Martins 79 August The Seagull 91 September Birds in the Corn 103 October The Moping Owl 113 November Waterfowl 125 December The Robin Redbreast 137 NOTE These sketches of birds each appropriate to one month of the twelve originally appeared in The Outlook to the Editor and Proprietors of which review I am indebted for permission to reprint them in book form. F. G. A. Easter 1914. JANUARY THE PHEASANT 11 THE PHEASANT AS birds are to be considered throughout these pages from any standpoint but that of sport much that is of interest in connection with a bird essentially the sportsman s must necessarily be omitted. At the same time although this gorgeous creature the chief attraction of social gatherings throughout the winter months appeals chiefly to the men who shoot and eat it it is not uninteresting to the naturalist with opportunities for studying its habits under conditions more favourable than those encountered when in pursuit of it with a gun. In the first place with the probable exception of the swan of which something is said on a later page the pheasant stands alone among the birds of our woodlands in .
