LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



" It's my turn now. Brother Billy '" . . '. . Front 



A Feast for Birds : Hawthorn Berries 

 Young Blue Tit W'aitino- to be Fed . 

 Ivy Berries . . . . . . 



Greenfinches Eating Sunflower Seeds . 



Blue Tit Feeding on Suspended Kernel of Nut 



Song Thrush on Hummock of Snow . 



A Eobin Waiting for his Breakfast 



Starlings Feeding in Winter 



Cock Sparrow Keady for Dinner 



1, An Edible Snail. 2, Snail with Broken Shell Kepain-d. 3. Shell 



after Snail has ]>een Eaten . 

 Snipe's Bill ....... 



Peregrine Falcon's l)eak .... 



An Experiment in tlie Transmission of Suund 



Some Snails that British Birds Eat 



Wild Cherry Stones Dropped by Birds and Collected by a ^Nlouse 



Gamekeeper's Daughter Feeding Wild Chaffinch 



Food which Birds Love : Elackberries in Early Autumn 



Great Crested Grebe's and Coot's Nests 



Dipper's Nest in Tree 



Waterhen's Nest on Cart Spring 



Heron's Nest Made of Wire 



Blackbird's Nest in Wire . 



Waterhen's Spare Nest 



Linnet's Nest .... 



Tree Pipit's Nest Hidden in (irass 



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