CONTENTS 



ANIMALS. HOW TO KNOW THE WILD. By Douglas English, B.A., 

 F.R.P.S. With Photographs by the Author. 

 The Mice of the Field . . 31 The Short-Tailed Meadow 



The Loxg-Tailed Field Mouse . 51 | Mouse . . . -173. 



The Harvest Mouse 



The Dormouse 



The Red - Backed 



;\Iouse . 



^Meadow 



84 

 102 



13^ 



The Hedgehog . 



The Mole 



The Shrew Mice 



The Stoat and Weasel 



503. 



BIRDS, HOW TO KNOW THE. By The Rev. Maurice C. H. Bird, M.A.. 

 :\I.B.O.U. With Photographs by Richard and Cherry Keartox, C. 

 Reid, and J. T. Newman. 



A General Survey . 

 The Thrushes . 

 The Warblers . 

 Tits, Pipits, and Larks 

 The Finches 



BRITISH FRESHWATER FISH 

 Gallichan. The Trout 



20 



59 



75 



no 



145 

 AND 



Starlings and Crows 

 Kingfisher, Swallows, and 

 Climbers .... 

 The Gallinaceous Birds . 



THEIR HAUNTS. By W. M. 

 By F. Martin Duncan, F.R.P.S. 



MOUNTAIN, LIFE HISTORY OF A. By J. Lomas, F.G.S., A.R.C.S. 



NATURE " IN TOWN." By Arthur Scammell. 



- Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens ..... 



OLD ENGLISH GARDENS. By H. H. Thomas 



ON THE LOVE OF NATURE. By Walter Crane 



PLANTS, THE SLEEP OF. By S. Leonard Bastin. With Photographs by 

 the Author ........... 



199 

 226 

 265 



318 

 352 



185 



339 

 361 



CLIFFS AND THEIR STORY, THE. 



With Photographs by the Author ....... 



CLOUDS, HOW TO KNOW THE. By William J. S. Lockyer, M.A., Ph.D., 



F.R.A.S. With Photographs by the Author . . . . . 8, 65, 



FUNGI, SO-ME CO.MMON BRITISH. By Maud U. Clarke. With Photographs 

 by Henry Irving .......... 



GARDEN IN AUTUMN, THE. By H. H. Thom.\s 



GARDEN, THE DELIGHTS OF THE. By H. H. Thomas .... 



HUSH OF THE CORN, THE. By Arthur Scammell 



INSECTS, HOW TO KNOW THE. By John J. Ward. With Photographs 

 by the Author. 

 The Aw.\kening of Spring . . 44 | Protective Mimicry . 



Spring's Transformations . . 69 1 Conspicuous Insects of Summer- 



The Coming of Summer . . 127 | Time ..... 



294 

 116 



234 



37 

 249 



242. ^s^ 



345 



177 



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298 



