BIRDS OF MARSH AND MERE: AND HOW TO SHOOT THEM. By J.M. Nichols.

(1926) 1928 2nd edition. 8vo (141 x 220mm). Pp287. Colour frontispiece, plain plates and text illustrations by the author. Introductory note by J.G. Millais.

British wildfowling for ducks, geese and waders, includes a chapter on Canada and some discussion of the Netherlands. Chapters include: Wild geese; Wild-goose shooting; Wild goose shooting (continued); Wild goose shooting (continued); Sailing to fowl, brent geese, swans; How to shoot a goose; Wildfowling guns; Powder, shot, and cartridges; British wild ducks; Wild duck shooting (inland); Wild duck shooting (on the coast); Shooting in Canada; The larger wading birds; Shore bird shooting; Woodcocks and snipe; Other water birds - coots, moorhens, water rails, phalaropes, heron, bittern, crane, stork, spoonbill; Dogs for wildfowling; Bird migration - effect of bird protection, a trip to Holland, the Schelde Estuary, the Naarder Meer; choice of wildfowling quarters - general considerations, effect of the Great War, the 'hush' port of Richborough, Pagham Harbour.