List of Illustrations xxi 



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Viper . . . . . .275 



Common Bat . . . . . . . . . . i . 284 



Redstart . ..... . . . . . . . 286 



Brown Owl ........... 301 



Woodcock ........... 309 



Sparrow-hawk . . . . . . . . . . -312 



Field-crickets ........... 323 



House-cricket ........... 327 



Mole-cricket ........... 329 



Black-winged Stilt . . . . . . . . . . 331 



The Shell of White's Tortoise 335 



Now in the Natural History Museum at South Kensington. 



Wood-pigeon ........... 345 



Landrail or Corncrake ......... 349 



Nuthatch ........... 352 



Peregrine Falcon . . . . . . . . . -355 



Hen-harrier ........... 359 



White's Thrush 363 



This thrush seems first to have been noticed in Hampshire, in 1828, and 

 for that reason was named Whitens Thrush by Eyton. It if first 

 mentioned by him in his work " A History of the Rarer British 

 Birds" 



Great Northern Diver . , . . . . . . . 373 



Hybrid Bird ... . . 381 



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