LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



VII 



Robin Looking at Young 



Thrushes after ha\-ing Fed 



Them ..... 73 



Thrush Holding Food till her 



Chicks Grow Hungrj^ 



Again 73 



Stoat and Rabbit ... S3 

 Stoat about to Drag Dead 



Rabbit Away ... 84 

 Bullhead Swallowing Loach . 86 

 Strange Attitude of a Frog 



whilst being Photographed 87 

 Primroses Photographed in 

 First Moments of the 20th 

 Century .... 88 

 Daisies Asleep, Photographed 



Before Sunrise ... 89 

 Daisies Awake, Photographed 



After Sunrise ... 89 

 Wild Canadian Geese . . 90 

 Descending a Cliff witli Camera 91 

 Cock Grouse on a Stone . . 93 

 Hen Grouse Sitting on her 



Nest 95 



Young Grouse in Heather . 97 

 Arctic Skua about to Co\er 



her Eggs .... 99 

 Skua Going on to her Nest . 102 

 Short-eared Owl's Nest . . 104 

 Twite on Nest .... 105 

 Corncrake on Nest . . . 108 



Red-breasted Merganser . .110 

 Young Red-breasted Mergansers 1 1 1 

 Peewit on Nest . . . .113 



Peewit with Raindrops on Back 



Plumage . . . -113 

 Snipe Covering Chicks . .115 



The Red-necked Phalarope 



Swimming . . . .117 



Boys Driving Phalarope . . iiS 

 Phalarope. . . . .119 

 A Moorland Beck . . .120 

 Fritillary Butterfly . .121 



White Butterfly on Thyme . 122 



Peacock Butterflv . . .123 



Small Tortoiseshell Butterflv . 125 

 Brimstone Butterfly on Oxlip . 126 

 Red Admiral . . . -127 

 Blue Butterfly at Roost . .128 

 Tiger Moth . . . .129 

 Six-spot Burnet Moth, Cater- 

 pillar, and Pupas Case . 130 

 Emperor Moth .... 131 

 Brimstone Moth . . . 132 



Swallow-tailed Moth. . .133 



Angle-Moth on dead Beech 



Leaves .... 

 Angle-moth on Grass Stems 

 Mimicking Moth on Rose-leaf . 

 Mimicking Grass IMoth 

 Plume Moth .... 

 Looper Caterpillars on Ivy 

 Caterpillars of Cinnabar Moth 



on Ragwort 

 Processional Caterpillars on 



Hazel Leaf 

 Eyed Hawk-moth Caterpillar . 

 Dead Rat lifted out of Grave 



being Dug for him by 



Sexton Beetles . 

 Rat being buried by Sexton 



Beetles .... 

 Spider making Web . 

 Spiders' Webs laden with Dew- 

 Spider carrying Ball of Eggs . 

 Family of young Spiders on 



Web between top Stones 



of a Wall . 

 Same Scattering to Safety. 

 Photographer on Author's 



Shoulders . 

 Young Long-eared Owl . 

 Female Sparrow-hawk Buildin: 



her own Nest 

 Sparrow-hawk Sitting on Nest 

 Wood- wren on Hazel Twig 

 Jackdaw on Post 

 Young Jackdaws 

 ?klale Redstart . 

 Female Redstart 

 Blackcap on Nest 

 Lesser Whitethroat on Nest 

 Hedge-sparrow Attending to 



her Young . 

 Garden Warbler on Nest . 

 Young Butcher-birds or Red 



backed Shrikes . 

 Bullfinch on Nest 

 Yellow-hammer going on to her 



Nest .... 

 Starling going to Nesting-hole 

 Woodpecker going to Nest 

 Anxious enquiry : Woodpecker 



Peeping out of Nesting-hole 

 Nightingale . . . . 

 Song Thrush Photographed by 



Flashlight whilst at Roost 



in Hedgerow- 

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