CONTENTS 

 PART I 



:HAPTER PAGE 



I. INTRODUCTORY 3 



II. BIRDS' NESTS AND EGGS 1 1 



III. EGG-COLLECTING AND ITS OBJECT . . . .16 



IV. PHOTOGRAPHING NESTS AND YOUNG BIRDS . . .21 

 V. HINTS ON THE REARING AND KEEPING OF BIRDS . . 24 



VI. NOTES ......... 27 



APPROXIMATE DATES WHEN BIRDS BEGIN TO NEST . 29 



PART II 



I. OPEN NESTS ON THE GROUND, IN OPEN FIELDS, MARSHES, 



AND GENERALLY OPEN COUNTRY . . . . 35 

 II. OPEN NESTS IN WOODS, THICKETS, SWAMPY THICKETS . 52 

 III. COVERED OR ARCHED NESTS ON GROUND : 



PART I. OPEN COUNTRY . . . . -73 

 PART II. IN WOODS AND THICKETS . . -74 



