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The same Xest Uncovered by the Photographer . 



Long-tailed Tit and Xest . . . - • 



Great Sijotted Woodpecker's Xesting Holes 



Starling Going to Xesting Hole in Eick 



Great Crested Grebe's X"est with Eggs Covered by Pa 



The same Xest with Eggs Uncovered . 



1, Eider Duck's X'est with Egj^s Uncovered. 2, Eidt 



Nest. 3, Eider Duck 

 Waterhen's Nest in Reeds . 

 Waterhen's Nest in Brambles 



Fulmar Petrel's Egg 



Smallest and Largest British Birds' Eggs . 

 Raven's and Common Curlew's Eggs . 



Song Thrush's Eggs 



Blackbird's Eggs 



Yellow Hammer's Nest containing Dwarf Egg 

 Eggs of Guillemot and Tawny Owl . 

 Peewit's Eggs, (1) with Pointed Ends Tn. (2) wi 



Out 



Ringed Plover's Eggs as Laid 



Starling's Eggs in the same Nesting Place . 



Young Peewit Standing .... 



Young Peewit Crouching .... 



Baby Curlew ...... 



Young Curlew Hiding .... 



The First Week in a Baby Blackbird's Life 

 Female Blackcap Sitting on Nest Full of Young 

 Arctic Tern Guarding Her Nest . 

 A Missel Thrush at Nest .... 



In Dreamland ....•• 



" Who said Mice 'r " 



Merlin's Nest, with Newly-hatched Chick . 

 Gannet and Young . . . • 



Young Crested Tits ..... 

 Male Bearded Tit Feeding Young 

 Kittiwake and Young ..... 

 " Where on Earth has Mother Gone ? " 



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