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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



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Wren 305 



Hoopoe 310 



Nuthatch 312 



Cuckoo 317 



AVood Pigeon, or Ring Dove . . 326 

 Stock Dove . . . . . . . .332 



Rock Dove .335 



Turtle Dove 338 



Common Pheasant 341 



Black Grouse 348 



Red Grouse 351 



Ptarmigan 355 



Common Partridge 359 



Red-legged Partridge 364 



Common Quail . ... . . . 367 



Great Bustard . , . . '. . .373 

 Great Plover. . ... . . .378 



Golden Plover 381 



Dotterel .......... 385 



Ringed Plover . ... . . .387 



Grey Plover 391 



Lainving, or Peewit 394 



Turnstone. . . . ' 396 



Sandei'ling 399 



Oyster Catcher, or Sea Pie . . . 401 



Heron 406 



Common Bittern ...... 413 



Night Heron 416 



Common Curlew 420 



Whimbrel 422 



Common Redshank 424 



Common Sandpiper 428 



Avoofl^ 432 



Black-wingeci Stilt . . . . . 434 



Bar-tailed Godwit 435 



Ruff 437 



Woodcock 440 



Great Snipe 444 



Common Snipe 445 



Jack Snipe 449 



Curlew Sandpiper 451 



Knot 452 



Dunlin 456 



Purple Sandpiper 459 



FACE 



Land Rail, or Corn Crake . . . 461 



Water Rail 464 



Moor Hen 460 



Common Coot 470 



Grey Phalarope 472 



Bean Goose 475 



White-fronted Goose 478 



Bernicle Goose 480 



Brent Bernicle 4b2 



Hooper Swan 485 



Common Sheldrake 491 



Pintail Duck 496 



Wild Duck 498 



Teal 504 



Wigeon . . . . ■ 506 



Eider Duck 508 



Black Scoter 513 



Common Pochard . . . . ■ . . 516 



Scaup Duck 518 



Tufted Duck. . , ..-.■. .519 

 Long-tailed Duck . . . . • . , 521 



Golden Eye . .523 



Goosander 528 



Great Crested Grebe 529 



Little Grebe, or Dabchick . . .533 

 Great Northern Diver .... 536 



Common Guillemot 541 



Little Auk 546 



Puffin 547 



Razor-bill 550 



Common Cormorant 553 



Shag 557 



Gannet 559 



Common Tern 566 



Lesser Tern 570 



Black Tern 572 



Black-headed Gull 578 



Kittiwake Gull 581 



Common GuU 584 



Herring Gull 588 



Common Skua 592 



Richardson's Skua 595 



Greater Shearwater 601 



Stormy Petrel 604 



