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The Brook and Its Banks
by Rev. J.G. Woods

From Girls' Own Paper - 1886-1887

water ousel

Part 1
Introduction; the water rat; the skate "iron"; the water vole.
Part 2
Enemies of the water vole; the heron; the fox, the cow and the owl; the heron and the eel; the cormorant and the conger; herony in Wanstead Park.
Part 3
Pike; cousins of the water vole; the campagnol or short-tailed field mouse; the kestrel and owls; the humble-bee and wasp; the blackbird, thrush and campagnol.
Part 4
The bank vole; a long-tailed field mouse; robbing a moth-hunter; treacles and their visitors; the water-shrew; superstitions regarding the shrews; the shrew-mouse; the pigmy shrew, our smallest mammal.
Part 5
The kingfisher.
Part 6
Hedera-dash; a Wiltshire "burnie"; Bandusia; the cataracts; the dipper or water ousel; the freshwater shrimp.
Part 7
The little grebe or dabchick; the water-hen or coot; the water rail.
Part 8
Water wagtails; cuckoos; sedge warbler; reed warbler.
Part 9
Collecting water-creatures.



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