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DWELLERS IN NESTS. 

 PART II. 



Garden Birds Severe Winter of 1894-95 Mortality amongst 

 Kingfishers from Prolonged Frost An Enemy to King- 

 fishers Extract from Jackson's Oxford Journal Indian 

 and British Kingfishers Kingfisher's Feathers used for 

 Salmon-flies Anecdotes respecting Kingfishers King- 

 fishers Protection of Owls' Eggs in Oxfordshire under the 

 New Act The Law of Retaliation Birds and Caterpillars 

 -Woodpeckers Varieties of British Woodpeckers 

 Great Green Woodpecker Quotation from C. Kingsley's 

 Poems Woodpeckers in Devonshire Greater Spotted and 

 Lesser Barred Woodpeckers The Wryneck Cure for 

 Gapes in Poultry, Pheasants, etc. Observations on Wood- 

 peckers and Wrynecks Difficulty in detecting Song of 

 Birds Wrynecks in my own Garden Name of Cuckoo's 

 Mate Plumage of Wryneck Eggs of Wryneck Peculiar 

 Structure of Neck of Wryneck Name of Snake-bird 

 Migration of Cuckoos The Cuckoo Instance of Cuckoo 

 rearing its Young Peculiar Formation of Back of Young 

 Cuckoo Deposition of Egg by Cuckoo Varying Colour 

 of Eggs The Note of the Cuckoo Too many Nightin- 

 gales Rearing of Young Cuckoos Nests utilized by 

 Cuckoo for depositing its Egg Instance of a Thrush 

 feeding a Young Cuckoo Birds feeding Young Cuckoos 

 Disproportionate Sizes of Birds and their Eggs 

 The Mound Bird 'and the Cuckoo Preference of Cuckoo 



