LIST OF PLATES. 



(FOR TEXT ILLUSTRATIONS SEE INDEX.) 



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I. i. Hedgehog (basking) ; 2. Mole ; 3. Water Vole ; 4. Hedgehog . 28 



II. i. The Otter at play ; 2. Long-eared Bat ; 3. Squirrels ; 4. A Tame. 



Otter 32 



III. i. Weasel ; 2. Foxes ; 3. Badger ; 4. Rabbit 36 



IV. i. Short-eared Bats ; 2. Bat, showing Structure of the Wings ; 3. 



Common Mouse ; 4. Old English Rat 40 



V. i. Common Rat ; 2. House Mice ; 3. Field Mouse in Nest ; 4. Shrew 44 



VI. i. The Stoat ; 2. Red Deer in Snow ; 3. Skeleton of Mouse (found in 



an old piano) ; 4. Rabbit fostered by Cat 48 



VII. i. Common Curlew; 2. Snipe, with Eggs just hatching; 3. Wood 



Pigeon ; 4. Song Thrushes 84 



VIII. i. Stone Curlew ; 2. Green Plover ; 3. Common Buzzard ; 4. Tree 



Pipit 112 



IX. i. A Starling's Box ; 2. " Starling Castle " ; 3. Blackbird's Nest in 



Bucket ; 4. Robin's Nest in a Tea-caddy 136 



X. Representative British Birds' Eggs 140 



XI. Representative British Birds' Eggs 140 



XII. i. Common Lizard ; 2. Edible Snail ; 3. Blind-worm ; 4. Grass Snake 144 



XIII. i. Minnows and Sticklebacks; 2. Crayfish, with Eggs; 3. Adder; 



4. Foraminifera 15-2 



XIV. i. Marine Zoophyte (Coryne vaginata) ; 2. Tube of Ship-worm ; 3. 



Angular Crab ; 4. Cuttle-fish, showing upper and under sides . 164 



XV. i. Web of Epeira callophylla, covered with dew ; 2. Spider guarding 



Eggs ; 3. Commencing the Web ; 4. Garden Spider in Web . 168 



XVI. i. Garden Spider (upper side) ; 2. Garden Spider (under side) ; 3. 



House Spider ; 4. Wolf Spider 172 



XVII. Some Representative British Spiders 176 



XVIII. i. " Money-spinner " or " Harvester " ; 2. Hydra, budding (en- 

 larged) ; 3. Water Flea (enlarged) ; 4. Millipede (enlarged) . 180 



XIX. i. Head of Cockroach (from behind) ; 2. Front view ; 3. " Cuckoo 



Spit " ; 4. Aphides on a Rosebud 184 



