CONTENTS. 
NESTS AND EGGS. 
General description of. Colour of eggs—causes of colouring. 
Forms and sizes ofeggs. Architecture of nests. Nests of tropical 
birds. How to collect and preserve eggs. List of birds’ eggs. 
Bird-nesting in fields and commons. Nests of the linnet, yellow- 
hammer, greenfinch, redpole, lark, woodlark, titlark, nightingale. 
Nests in woods and hedgerows,—water-ouzel, jay, missel-thrush, 
thrush, blackbird, fieldfare, redwing, blackcap, tomtit, bottle-tit, 
robin-redbreast, goldfinch, kitty wren, chaffinch, hawfinch, bull- 
finch, siskin. 
ROCK AND WALL-BUILDING BIRDS. 
Magpie, jackdaw, ger-falcon, merlin, kestrel, sparrow-hawk, 
owl, raven, starling, redstart, ring-ouzel, butcher-bird. 
PREPARING AND STUFFING BIRDS AND ANIMALS. 
Art of Taxidermy. Hints to travellers on the preservation of 
skins, &c. Procuring subjects. Precautions to be taken. 
Methods of capturing reptiles, ophidians. Preserving batrachians, 
fish, crustacea, mollusks, insects. Skinning and preparing birds. 
Skinning and preparing quadrupeds. Preserving reptiles. Pre- 
serving and skinning fishes. Preserving crustacea. Stuffing 
and mounting birds. Stuffing and mounting quadrupeds. Stuffing 
and mounting fish. Preparing skeleton leaves. 


