LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



THE NOCTULE - From a painting by Archibald Thorburn 



Frontispiece 



FACING PAGE 



PUFFIN ISLAND - - Photograph by T. Taylor i 



THE PUFFIN - 4 



THE COMMON TERN, A BIRD OF LLANDDWYN - 15 



THE MONASTERY, BARDSEY - - The Author 22 



A BARDSEY FARM - - "33 



THE SLOPE WHERE THE SHEARWATERS NEST T. Baddeley 36 



THE TIDE FILLING THE GUTTERS - '55 



THE CHESHIRE BIRD - E. L. Turner 73 



NEST OF GREBE COVERED AND UNCOVERED T. Taylor 76 



THE TWITE - ... 87 



THE CURLEW ON THE MOOR - "94 



THE OLD QUARRY - T. Baddeley 103 



THE DANDY ... Nicholson and Gartner 1 10 



THE FROZEN TIDE - T. Baddeley 113 



THE GREY LAG, GOOSE OF SOLWAY - E. L. Turner 116 



THE OLD WILD-FOWLER - - T. Baddeley 121 



THE COTTAGE ON THE SHORE - - - - 124 



TOM EVANS, LOOKING FOR FOWL ON THE DEE /. A. Dockray I2J 

 MERE CLOUGH, HAUNT OF THE OLD LANCASHIRE 



NATURALISTS - - - T. Baddeley 134 



THE PEREGRINE'S EYRIE T. Taylor 152 



THE KEEPER'S GIBBET - ... I ^ 



THE PERSECUTED KITTIWAKE .... jgj 



THE ALIEN GREY SQUIRREL - - - 198 



