PREFACE 



TO THE FIEST EDITION. 



This Guide to the Nesting-Series of British Birds has been 

 prepared by Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, Assistant in the 

 Zoological Department. It is a reproduction of the long 

 explanatory labels affixed to the special cases of nesting-birds 

 which occupy the centre and many of the recesses of the Bird 

 Gallery. In most instances the nests are exhibited with the 

 actual tree, rock, turf or other support which was found 

 with them, but where it has been impossible to remove these 

 accessory objects to the Museum, they are represented by exact 

 models prepared from sketches and. measurements. 



E. RAY LANKESTER. 



March 16th, 1905. 



PREFACE 



TO THE THIRD EDITION. 



An account of the British Coal-Titmouse has been added on 

 p. 27, and BufFon's Skua has been inserted on p. 44. In other 

 respects the Second and Third Editions are practically reprints 

 of the First Edition, with a few trifling corrections and other 

 alterations. 



British Museum (Natural History), 

 London, S.W. 7. 

 June, 1919. 



SIDNEY F. HARMER, 



Keeper of Zoology. 



