x Illustrations 



FACING 

 PAGE 



PUFFINS ............ 410 



Photo: Our Common 8ea-Bird (Country Life, Ltd.) 



THROAT OF THE HOUSE-SPARROW ........ 410 



MAGPIE 410 



Photo: James's Press Agency. 



HEN NIGHTINGALE . . . . . . . . . .411 



Photo: J. H. Symonds. 



WHINCHATS 411 



Photo: Oliver G. Pike (in Country Life). 



JACKDAWS 416 



Photo: Oswald T. Wilkinson. 



MEADOW PIPIT CLEANING ITS NEST ....... 416 



HERON (WITH YOUNG) 417 



From Wild Life in the Tree Topi. 



COMMON GULL (Larus canux) WITH NEST, EGG, AND YOUNG . . 420 

 Photo: Royal Scottish Museum. 



LAPWING OR PEEWIT SETTLING DOWN ON ITS EGGS .... 420 



CHIMNEY SWIFT RINGED AT MERIDEN, NEW HAMPSHIRE, U. S. A., IN 

 JUNE, WHICH RETURNED TO HIS OLD CHIMNEY AFTER WINTERING 

 IN THE TROPICS .......... 421 



From Smithsonian Report, 1913. 



BLACK-THROATED DIVER (Colymbus are/teas) WITH NEST AND EGGS . 421 

 Photo: Royal Scottish Museum. 



THE AMHERST PHEASANT IN DISPLAY (Coloured Illustration) . . 424 



Reproduced by courtesy of Messrs. Methuen & Co., from A History of 

 Birds, by W. P. Pycraft. (After a painting by G. E. Lodge.) 



PORTION OF TIP OF DOWNY FEATHER FROM THE UNDER TAIL-COVERTS 



OF THE MISSEL-THRUSH. (Highly magnified.) ..... 426 

 Photo: F. R. Hinkins & Son. 



SWINHOE'S PHEASANT (MALE) ........ 426 



Photo: James's Press Agency. 



BLACK-COCK ON THEIR PLAYING-GROUND ...... 427 



Reproduced by permission from Game Birds and Shooting Sketches, by 

 J. G. Millais. 



A PAIR OF GREAT SKUAS AND THEIR YOUNG ...... 427 



Photo: R. Chislett. 



