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William Hamilton Gibson Frontispiece 



Initial. The Studio Door 3 



The Rose-bush Episode 9 



A Comer of My Table I2 



An Animated Brush f 4 



A Specimen in Three Stages J 6 



The Studio Table iS 



Initial 2 3 



The European Cuckoo •?•/ 



The Yellow-billed Cuckoo 26 



Browsing Kine 2 9 



A Greedy Foster-child 34 



The Yellow Warbler 44 



A Blighted Home 46 



The Normal Nest of the Yellow Warbler 47 



The Yellow Warbler at Home 49 



A Suspicious Nest of the Yellow Warbler jo 



The Nest Separated 5 2 



Initial 57 



The Door-step Arena, with its Pitfalls 60 



fishing for Tigers , , . . , 6j 



