LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Male Bearded Tit and Young .... Frontitpiecf 



Fishing Smack under Sail xvi 



Our Camera .... 3 



Artificial Tree Trunk open 12 



Artificial Tree Trunk closed 13 



Artificial Rubbish Heap in Cart .... . 15 



Home of the Dipper (Tailpiece) 19 



Preparing to Descend a Cliff .22 



The Wrong Way to Descend .24 



The Eight Way to Descend 25 



Descending an Overhanging Cliff ... .27 



Descending a Sloping-faced Cliff 29 



Shag's Nest 33 



Shag Stretching Herself 34 



Photographing a Shag ......... 35 



Ascending a Thick Tree . 39 



Among the Slender Branches 41 



Coot's Nest 43 



A Corner of the Fame Islands ( Tailpiece) 45 



Hedge Sparrow on Her Nest 55 



Robin Entering Coffee Pot .58 



Robin Leaving Coffee Pot . . 59 



Robin's Nest in a Jam Jar 61 



Robin Sitting on Her Nest in an Old Biscuit Box . . .63 



Thrush Feeding Young 65 



Pied Blackbird Feeding Her Chicks . ... 67 



A Highland Cotter's Hut (Tailpiece) ... . 71 



Skylark, Nest and Young .... ... 74 



Female Starling ... ... 76 



Male Starling ... 77 



Longtailed Tit and Nest ... .... 78 



