PREFACE. 



THIS little volume is to be regarded as a supple- 

 ment to our former work on " British Birds' Nests: 

 How, Where, and When to Find and Identify 

 Them," published in 1895. Since that time, my 

 brother and I have missed no opportunity of 

 collecting photographs representing the nests, eggs 

 or breeding-places of such birds as we had not 

 up to that time been fortunate enough to figure 

 by means of the camera, and at the request of 

 a numerous band of ornithological friends, we now 

 publish our harvest of sun-pictures and informa- 

 tion pertaining thereto. Its title is suggested by 

 the obvious fact that the nests we were unable to 

 include in the former work, had been chiefly in- 

 accessible to us at that time because more rare. 

 Its supplementary character is our excuse for 

 including under such a title, several which cannot 

 be called rare, and are even common. Such find 

 a place simply to complete, as far as possible, our 

 list, and as not appearing in the former collection. 

 Although the results of our labours may not 

 loom large to the eye when compressed within 

 the two covers of a book, some notion may 

 perhaps be gathered of what it costs to collect the 

 materials for such a work, when it is mentioned 



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