LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Male OsPREY descending with a small fish grasped 

 in its talons. {Photographed by P. H. Bahr.) 

 Plate L . . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece. 



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OsPREY flving down to nest. {Photographed by P. H. 



Bahrf . . . . 19 



Osprey's Nest on a rock out at sea. {Photographed by 



P. H. Bahr) 20 



Alfred Newton. Plate 2 . . . . . . facing 33 



Female Osprey calling with crest i-aised. {Photographed 



by P. H. Bahr) 41 



Young OsPREYS making full use of their protective 



coloration. {Photographed by P. H. Bahr) . . 43 



Tails of British Willow-Tit and British Marsh-Tit 45 



Reeve going on to her nest. {Photographed by Miss 



E. L. Turner.) Plate 3 facing 65 



Chins and Throats of males of the Pacific Eider and 



Common Eider . . . . . . . . . . 71 



Nest of the White-tailed Eagle on the borders of a 

 salt lagoon in Asia Minor. {Photographed by F. C. 

 Selous) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 



A nesting-place of the Great White Heron in Central 



Hungary. {Photographed by F. C. Selous) . . 79 



Sardinian Warbler shot near Hastings . . . . 86 



Nest of Common Heron at Dungeness. {Photographed 



by N. F. Ticehurst) 99 



Young of Great Crested Grebe. {Photographed by 



Miss E. L. Turner) 104 



Lesser Black-backed Gulls off Mogador. {Photo- 

 graphed by F. W. JieacWey) 116 



Diagram illustrating gliding . . . . . . . . 117 



