LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



COLOURED PLATES AND HALF-TONES 



Wheatear, Whinchat, and Eggs .... 

 Cirl Bunting, Reed Bunting, and Eggs 

 Female Blackbird on Nest. Young Blackbirds in Nest 

 Eggs of British Birds ..... 



Meadow Pipit's Nest containing Cuckoo's Egg. Meadow 



Pipit feeding young Cuckoo .... 

 Turtle Dove. Young Turtle Doves 

 Young Kestrels. Lapwing at Nest 

 Tawny Owl. Hobby Falcon .... 

 Young Kingfishers. Moorhen on Nest 

 Common Partridge on Nest. Also Nest and Eggs 

 Golden Plover. Redshank .... 



Stonechat. Great Tit 



Nest and Eggs of Stonechat. Mute Swan 



Nest, Eggs, and Young of Greater Whitethroat . 



Green and Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers, and Eggs 



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ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT 



FIG. 



i. Blackcap ..... 



2. Yellow Bunting .... 



3. Head and Foot of Common Buzzard 



4. Chiff Chaff 



5. Coot 



6. Cormorant ..... 



7. Head of Corncrake 



8. Tree Creeper .... 



9. Head and Foot of Curlew 



10. Dunlin ..... 



11. Pied Flycatcher .... 



12. Head of Great Crested Grebe 



13. Head and Foot of Little Grebe 



14. Head of Common Guillemot . 



15. Head of Hawfinch 



16. Head of Heron .... 



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