Excerpt from British Birds, Vol. 5: An Illustrated Magazine Devoted to the Birds on the British List; June 1911-May 1912 The return of the Bittern as a nesting species to Norfolk, so ably chronicled by Miss Turner, has afforded the most striking and important event of the year covered by this fifth volume of british birds. To regain a former breeding species, or to gain a new one, is of far greater interest and value than to discover a new straggler, although the importance of such additions to our list of British birds must not be minimized, for in these days of close watching and wider knowledge, it soon appears that many of these seeming stragglers are much more often overlooked than detected, and their occurrence may not be so accidental as has been thought. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.