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List of Plates.



LIST OF PLATES.



The Asterisk denotes a Coloured Plate.


TO FACE


Breeding-place of Ibis abbotti and Alectxrnas minor on Aldabra

Island, Sontli Indian Ocean .. .. .. .. f


Home of Alectretnas pulchemma. Waterfall Cascade Estate, i

Mahe, Seychelles .. .. .. .. .. /


Nest and Eggs of Chlons sitiica, the Chinese Greenfinch .. i

Nest and Eggs in Weaver’s Nest of the Chinese Greenfinch '


* Towliee (Upper figure, female : lower figure, male) ..


The African White-eye (two positions)


Hill Tit ( Liothtix ) and Zoster ops capons is .. .. .. (


African White-eye .. .. .. .. .. .. i


The Goldfinch (Cardnelis elegans)


Goldfinches on Teazels


The Tyrant of the Shores and Islands:— .


Fig. i. Greater Black-hacked Gull standing over eggs ..


Fig. 2. Greater Black-backed Gull, sitting .. .A


Fig. 3. Nest and Eggs of Greater Black-backed Gull .. 1


Fig. 4 Young Greater Black-backed Gulls .. ..1


* The Motmot ( Momotus tnomo/a)


“The Pendulum of the Barranco”: the Mexican Motmot .. (


(two positions) .. I


Cock Nightingale taking food to young

The Owl Parrot (Stringops habroptilus)


Hedge Accentor (A. modularis)


Yellowhammers feeding young ( Emberiza citnneUa ) ..


* The Pink-crested Touraco (Turactis eiythrolophus)


Cauvasbacks. —A group of Canvasback Ducks wintering on

Cayuga Lake


Male Argus Pheasant, Displaying

Wliitethroat going to young. [Sylvia communis)


Emperor Geese with three Chicks in Down.. .. ..1


Emperor Geese. Adult .. .. .. .. ..1


Rufous Tinamou and Brood..


Male South American Rhea and Brood


Andean Gosling .. .. .. .. .. .. (


Chick of the Rufous Tinamou .. .. .. ..1


Red-winged Bush Shrike ( Telephoneus australis minor)



TEXT FIGURES.


Head of Black-necked Swau .. .. page 51


White-eye .. .. .. .. ,, 75


Wattled Cassowary .. .. .. „ S2


Cuvier’s Podargus .. .. .. „ 333



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