Excerpt from Some Birds of the Countryside: The Art of NatureWhen a lifting of the clouds had brought with it a lifting of the birds' spirits, the starling squadrons used to bear right through the ¿ank of the stippled rook mass without breaking it or confusing their own order and wheel and plunge through the vanguard, emerging like light cavalry from the front of the advancing surge.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.