LIST OF THE COLOURED PLATES 



The Nightingale Frontispiece 



Pied Wagtails, cock (lower figure), hen and young . . . .16 



Fieldfares 32 



Wren feeding her young . ........ 48 



Cock Wheatear (upper bird) courting hen 64 



Magpie Inquisitive .......... 80 



Cock Linnet in summer plumage (upper bird) and hen ... 96 

 Green Woodpeckers, male (left) and female, the latter protruding 



her tongue to catch ants . . . . . . .112 



Sedge-warbler . . . . . . . . . . .128 



Lesser Black-backed Gulls and Herring Gulls (right) and Iceland 



Gull (left) 144 



Swallow about to feed young . . . . . . . .160 



Stonechats, cock singing, and hen with a small lizard in her beak . 176 



Kingfisher feeding its young . 192 



Reed-warbler at its nest ......... 200 



Spotted Flycatcher enticing its young to fly 208 



Blue Tit about to feed its nestlings . 224 



Right : Grey Plover, adult and immature. Left : Whimbrel . . 240 

 Curlew chasing a raven from its breeding-place .... 256 



Cuckoo uttering its note . . . . . . . . .272 



Tawny Owl mobbed by small birds 288 



Snow-buntings in winter plumage ....... 304 



Skylarks, cock (upper bird), hen and nestlings .... 320 



Sparrow-hawks (the bird on the nest is the female) . . . 336 



Cock Yellowhammer .......... 360 



