xiv LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



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Male Chaffinch at Nest Containing Young- . . . . .81 



Young Red-backed Shrike 84 



Swift at Rest on a Rope ........ 85 



Robin's Nest in Basket ........ 87 



Great Tit Going- to Her Nest inside a Disused Pump . . .88 



"Wren's Nest in Rope 89 



Rooks' Nests 92 



House Sparrows Waiting Breakfast ...... 93 



Birds' Tracks in Snow (Walking and Hopping) . . . .95 



Terns on the Wing 97 



Eider Duck on Nest 99 



A Group of Puffins 100 



Young Gull on Chimney ........ 101 



Where Kittiwakes Breed 102 



Gulls Feeding A Scramble for Breakfast 103 



Young Gulls Waiting for More Breakfast . . . . .104 



Gulls on the Wing 105 



Gulls Flying Away from Loch Cliff 106 



Great Skua Preparing to Swoop . . . . . . .107 



Richardson's Skua Soaring . . . , . . . .107 



Great Skua Attacking Watcher 109 



Egg and Young of Great Skua . . . . . . .110 



Watcher's Cap Knocked off by Skua . . . . . .111 



Muckle Flugga The Most Northern Point of the British Islands 



(Tailpiece] . 112 



Leverets in their Form. . . . . . . . .115 



Rabbit 118 



Water Vole 123 



Hedgehog Rolled up 126 



Hedgehog 126 



Mole 129 



Nest of Harvest Mouse 132 



Bat 133 



The Haunt of the Kingfisher (Tailpiece) 135 



Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly 137 



White Butterfly 139 



Meadow Browns . .... ..... 140 



Orange Tip Butterfly 141 



Grass Moth at " Sugar '' 142 



Stag Beetles 143 



Ccirabm Intricatus 145 



Ermine Moth . 146 



