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List of Illustrations. 



Birds 



A Baby Jackdaw's First Peep into the World 



Proper Feather and Down of Young Chick 



Young Chaffinch. 



Young Common Gulls. 



Young Rohin 



Curlew's Feathers 



After-shaft Feathers of Var 



Breast Feathers of Heron and Gannet 



Tail Quill of Great Spotted Woodpecker and of 



Flight Feather of Swift and of Partridge . 



Flight Feather of Owl and of Pigeon . 



Heron on the Wing 



Sea Gulls on the Thames Embankment 

 Sandwich Terns on the Wing 

 Osprey Alighting on Dead Stump 

 Enjoying a Cool Bath .... 



Lessor Black-backed Gulls .... 



Young Song Thrush ..... 



Cock Chaffinch ...... 



Lark on Ground ...... 



Blackbird " Wetting its Wliistle" after a Song 



Willow Wren 



A Nightingale in its Bower 



*' Caw, Caw, Caw ! " ..... 



Corncrake 



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