LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



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Male Bearded Tit and Young .... Frontispiece, 



Fishing Smack under Sail . xvi 



Our Camera . . . . . . . . . .3 



Artificial Tree Trunk open 12 



Artificial Tree Trunk closed. ....... 13 



Artificial Eubbish Heap in Cart . . . . . . .15 



Home of the Dipper (Tailpiece] ....... 19 



Preparing to Descend a Cliff ....... 22 



The Wrong Way to Descend 24 



The Right Way to Descend 25 



Descending an Overhanging Cliff . . . . . .27 



Descending a Sloping-faced Cliff 29 



Shag's Nest 33 



Shag Stretching Herself 34 



Photographing a Shag 35 



Ascending a Thick Tree 39 



Among the Slender Branches 41 



Coot's Nest 43 



A Corner of the Fame Islands (Tailpiece] 45 



Hedge Sparrow on Her Nest .55 



Robin Entering Coffee Pot 58 



Robin Leaving Coffee Pot 59 



Robin's Nest in a Jam Jar 61 



Robin Sitting on Her Nest in an Old Biscuit Box . . .63 

 Thrush Feeding Young ........ 65 



Pied Blackbird Feeding Her Chicks 67 



A Highland Cotter's Hut (Tailpiece) 71 



Skylark, Nest and Young . 74 



Female Starling 76 



Male Starling 77 



Long-tailed Tit and Nest 78 



