LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. xv 



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Young Peewit 213 



Blackbirds at Home (four illustrations) 215 



Chiffchaff feeding her Young 217 



Nightingale on Nest 218 



Whitethroat on Nest 219 



Young Carrion Crows in Nest 221 



Young Spotted Flycatchers 222 



Young Wood Wrens 223 



Young Blue Tit 223 



Jay and Young 225 



Pied Wagtail's Nest and Young in Old Pail 227 



Pied Wagtail going into Inverted Old Pail to feed her Young . . . 227 



Young Thrushes 229 



Spider's Web covered with Hoar Frost (Tailpiece) 230 



Thrush on Sleeping Perch 233 



Cock Sparrow 236 



Nesting-Box . 236 



Sparrow Catchers 237 



Fully-fledged Swallows sleeping in Old Nest . . . . . .239 



Barn Owl . 243 



Red Underwing Moth 247 



Cormorant and Young 249 



Cormorants and Guillemots on the Saltees 251 



Young Sandwich Tern on Sand 253 



Young Sandwich Tern on Black Cloth 253 



Terns at Home 255 



Lesser Black-backed Gulls 257 



Eider Duck on Nest 259 



Wild Duck on Nest 260 



Young Eider Duck ^ . 261 



Kittiwakes ~7 . 263 



Young Black Guillemot 264 



Guillemots 265 



Gannets on the Wing 266 



Gannets on Bass Rock 267 



Common Gull's Nest 268 



Puffins at Home . 268 



Nest of Black-headed Gull 270 



Young Great Black-backed Gulls . 271 



ScoultonMere 272 



Razorbill and Egg (Tailpiece) 273 



Clap-Nets and Dummy Starlings n . . . 276 



Bird-CaU 278 



Call-Bird Cage 278 



Bird-catcher with Clap-Nets on Brighton Downs 279 



Playstick and Lure Bird 280 



Bird-catcher's Receiver 282 



Bird-catchers and their Plant . . . 283 



Finch Trap 287 



Wild Chaffinch studying Bird-catcher's Dummy 290 



Catching Chaffinches 291 



Nightingale Trap 292 



