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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



Gray Struthidea, .... 1494 



Black-Backed Piping Crow, . . 1496 



Red-Billed and Alpine Chough, . 1497 



Pander's Chough Thrush, . . 1498 



Huia Birds, .... 1500 



Twelve-Wired Bird of Paradise, . 1503 



Gorget Bird of Paradise, . . 1505 



Great Bird of Paradise, . . . 1506 



Red Bird of Paradise, . . . 1507 



Wilson's Bird of Paradise, . . 1509 



Head of Six-Plumed Bird of Paradise, . 1510 



Satin Bower Birds, . . . 1513 



Spotted Bower Birds at Home, . . 1514 



Common Starling, . . . 1516 



Common and Black Starling, . . 1517 



Rose-Colored Starling, . . . 1519 



Red-Billed Oxpecker, . . . 1520 



Superb Glossy Starling, . . . 1523 



Southern Grackle. . . . 1524 



Black Indian Drongo, . . . 1525 



Golden Oriole, .... 1527 



Crested Cassique, . . . 1529 



Common Cowbird, . . . 1532 



Red-Shouldered Starling, . . 1533 



Purple Troupial, .... 1534 

 Nest of Sociable Weavers, . . 1535 

 Common and White-Headed Oxbirds, 1537 

 Abyssinian and Masked Weaver Birds, 1538 

 Sociable Weaver Birds, . . . 1540 

 Java Sparrow, .... 1542 

 Violet Tanager, .... 1543 

 West Indian Honey Creeper, . . 1547 

 Red Cardinal and Rose-Breasted Gros- 

 beak, ..... 1553 

 Brambling, .... I5$7 

 Citril Finch, Snow Finch, and Lesser 



Redpoll, .... 1559 



Desert Finch, .... 1562 



Group of Sparrows, . . . 1564 



Serin and Red-Fronted Finches, . 1568 



The Canary, .... 1570 



Scarlet and Siberian Grosbeaks, . 1571 



The Bullfinch, .... 1574 



Lapland Bunting, . . . 1581 



Ortolan and Black-Headed Buntings, . 1584 



Cirl Bunting and Meadow Bunting, . 1587 



The Sparrow Bunting, . . . 1589 



Yellow Bunting, .... 1590 



Skylark, Woodlark, and Crested Lark, 1592 



Finch Lark and Desert Lark, . . 1596 



Black, White-Winged, and Short-Toed 



Larks, .... 1597 



Calandra Lark, .... 1598 



Horned Lark, .... 1601 



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The White Wagtail, . . . 1603 

 Yellow-Headed and Blue-Headed Wag- 

 tails, and Meadow Pipit, . . 1606 

 Group of Pipits, .... 1609 

 The Tree Creeper, . . . r 6n 

 The Wall Creeper, . . . ^12 

 Nuthatch, .... 1614 

 Honey Eater or Parson Bird, . . 1617 

 Metallic Sunbird, . . . 1620 

 Long-Tailed Tit, .... 1627 

 Shrike Tit, . . . 1631 

 Great Gray and Red-Backed Shrikes, . 1632 

 Lesser Gray Shrike, . . . 1634 

 Woodchat, Masked, and Hooded Shrikes, 1636 

 Indian Scarlet Minivet, . . . 1637 

 Bohemian Waxwing, . . . 1639 

 A Flock of Waxwings, . . . 1640 

 A Pair of Rock Thrushes, . . 1645 

 Song Thrush and Ring Ousel . . 1646 

 The Fieldfare, .... 1648 

 Blackbird and Sparrow Hawk, . . 1649 

 Rock Thrush, .... 1651 

 Wheatear, Whinchat, and Stonechat, . 1654 

 Redbreast and Redstart, . . 1657 

 Blue - Throated and Ruby - Throated 



Warblers, .... 1659 

 The Redbreast, .... 1661 

 The Nightingale, .... 1662 

 Malacca Dhyal Bird, . . . 1664 

 Lesser and Common Whitethroat, . 1666 

 Rufous and Orphean Warblers, . 1668 

 Barred and Garden Warblers, and Black- 

 cap, ..... 1669 

 Icterine Warbler, . . . 1672 

 Reed Warbler, .... 1673 

 Grasshopper, River, and Savi's Warb- 

 lers, ..... 1674 

 Sedge, Cetti's, and Fan-Tailed Warblers, 1676 

 Pheasant-Tailed Warbler, . . 1677 

 Hedge Sparrow and Alpine Accentor, . 1678 

 Yellow-Browed Warbler, Firecrest, and 



Goldcrest, . 1680 

 Black-Throated Green Warbler, . 1681 

 Wrens and their Nest, . . . 1684 

 Mocking Bird, .... 1686 

 Abyssinian Babbler, . . . 1687 

 Gold-Fronted Green Bulbul and Red- 

 Billed Liothrix, . . . 1688- 

 Palestine and White-Necked Bulbuls, . 1689 

 Spotted and Pied Flycatchers, . . 1691 

 White-Collared and Red-Breasted Fly- 

 catchers, .... 1693 

 Chimney Swallow and House Martin, . 1697 

 Red-Rumped Swallow and Crag Martin, 1698 



