The Birds of the Seasons—Some Birds of Passage—The Miracle of Migration—The Thrush—The Blackbird—What is the Meaning of Singing?—The Swallow

Pp.11-43

The Birds of the Months—Some Rare Birds and Some Common—January and the Fieldfare—Februrary and the Rook—March, April, May, with the Thrush, Swallow and Nightingale—The Terrors of Migration—June and the Ring-dove—A Wood-Pigeon Problem—The Dotterel—Evening Voices: The Nightjars—July and the Skylark—August, September, with Grouse and Partridge—The Ptarmigan—The Old Cock-Pheasant—November and the Woodcock—December and its Robin and Wren

Pp.45-89

The Rook—The Cuckoo—Lark and Woodlark—The Sparrow—Plague of Birds

Pp.91-110

Bird-Voices—The Corn-crake—The Black-Cap—The Turtle-Dove—Carpenter-Birds—The Nuthatch—The Wryneck—The Great Tit—The Letter-Box Tit of Rowfant

Pp.111-130

The Owl—The Magpie—The Kestrel or Windhover—Haunts of the Heron—Bird-Destroyers, the Gamekeeper and “Naturalist”

Pp.131-150

The Sea-Eagle—Guillemots—Egg-Gathering—The Paradise of the Puffins—The Stormy-Petrel—The Sea-Eagle’s Victims—The Black-Backed Gull—The Skua—Among the Cormorants and Gulls

Pp.151-185

The Kingfisher—The Mystery and Folk-Lore of the Halcyon—The Water-Vole at Home—In the Water-Meadows—The Moorhen and its Haunts—The Reed-Warbler—The Sedge-Warbler—Music of the Summer Nights—Waking the Sun

Pp.187-216