LIST OF PLATES 



WITH A LOOK OF PERFECT CONTENTMENT THE LINNET 



SETTLED UPON HER NEST . . Frontispiece 



FACING PAGE 



AFTER HIS FIRST FLIGHT THE BUZZARD LANDED UPON 



A ROCK . . . . . .28 



THE KINGFISHER CAPTURED A LARGE FISH TO TAKE 



TO ITS YOUNG . . . . .48 



THE THRUSH BROODING OVER HER YOUNG . . 82 



THE LAPWING AND HER EGGS . . .90 



THE RAVEN STOOD ON GUARD ON A ROCK ABOVE THE 



NEST . . . . . .112 



THE REED-WARBLER WONDERED WHEN THEIR LARGE 

 APPETITES WOULD BE SATISFIED . . .121 



GREAT-CRESTED GREBE SWIMMING . . . 136 



THE LITTLE GREBE AT REST ON HER EGGS . . 140 



THE DIPPER'S NEST ..... 146 



THE YOUNG HEDGE-SPARROWS CLAMOURED LUSTILY 



FOR MORE FOOD ..... 164 



WHEN THE WREN STOOD NEAR THE NEST THREE 



HUNGRY BEAKS WERE THRUST OUT . . 172 



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