LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



VII 



Robin Bringing Food to Young 



Thrushes .... 73 

 Robin Looking at Young 

 Thrushes after having Fed 



Them 73 



Song Thrush on Nest . . 73 

 Stoat and Rabbit ... 83 

 Stoat about to Drag Dead 



Rabbit Away ... 84 

 Bullhead Swallowing Loach . 86 

 Strange Attitude of a Frog 



whilst being Photographed 87 

 Primroses Photographed in 

 First Moments of the 2oth 

 Century .... 88 

 Daisies Asleep, Photographed 



Before Sunrise ... 89 

 Daisies Awake, Photographed 



After Sunrise ... 89 

 Wild Canadian Geese . . 90 

 Descending a Cliff with Camera 91 

 Cock Grouse on a Stone . . 93 

 Hen Grouse Sitting on her 



Nest 95 



Young Grouse in Heather . 97 

 Arctic Skua about to Cover 



her Eggs .... 99 

 Skua Going on to her Nest . 102 

 Short-eared Owl's Nest . . 104 

 Twite on Nest .... 105 

 Corncrake on Nest . . . 108 

 Red-breasted Merganser . .no 

 Young Red-breasted Mergansers in 

 Peewit on Nest . . . . 113 

 Peewit with Raindrops on Back 



Plumage . . . .113 

 Snipe Covering Chicks . . 115 

 The Red-necked Phalarope 



Swimming . . . . 117 

 Boys Driving Phalarope . .118 

 Phalarope. . . . .119 

 A Moorland Beck . . .120 

 Fritillary Butterfly . . .121 

 White Butterfly on Thyme . 122 

 Peacock Butterfly . . .123 

 Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly . 125 

 Brimstone Butterfly on Oxlip . 126 

 Red Admiral . . . .127 

 Blue Butterfly at Roost . .128 

 Tiger Moth . . . .129 

 Six-spot Burnet Moth, Cater- 

 pillar, and Pupae Case . 130 

 Emperor Moth . . . .131 

 Brimstone Moth . . . 132 

 Swallow- tailed Moth. . .133 



Angle-Moth on dead Beech 



Leaves .... 

 Angle-Moth on Grass Stems 

 Mimicking Moth on Rose-leaf . 

 Mimicking Grass Moth . 

 Plume Moth .... 

 Looper Caterpillars on Ivy 

 Caterpillars of Cinnabar Moth 



on Ragwort 

 Processional Caterpillars on 



Hazel Leaf 



Eyed Hawk-moth Caterpillar . 

 Dead Rat lifted out of Grave 



being Dug for him by 



Sexton Beetles . 

 Rat being buried by Sexton 



Beetles .... 

 Spider making Web . 

 Spiders' Webs laden with Dew 

 Spider carrying Ball of Eggs . 

 Family of young Spiders on 



W ; eb between top Stones 



of a Wall .... 

 Same Scattering to Safety. 

 Photographer on Author's 



Shoulders .... 

 Young Long-eared Owl . 

 Female Sparrow-hawk Building 



her own Nest 



Sparrow-hawk Sitting on Nest . 

 Wood-wren on Hazel Twig 

 Jackdaw on Post 

 Young Jackdaws 

 Male Redstart .... 

 Female Redstart 

 Blackcap on Nest 

 Lesser Whitethroat on Nest 

 Hedge-sparrow Attending to 



her Young .... 

 Garden Warbler on Nest . 

 Young Butcher-birds or Red- 

 backed Shrikes . 

 Bullfinch on Nest . 

 Yellow-hammer going on to her 



Nest 



Starling going to Nesting-hole . 

 Woodpecker going to Nest 

 Anxious enquiry : Woodpecker 



Peeping out of Nesting-hole 

 Nightingale .... 

 Song Thrush Photographed by 



Flashlight whilst at Roost 



in Hedgerow 

 Nightingale Lane 

 A Typical Broadsman 



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