C N T E N T S 



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Introduction 9 



Part I.— Wild Bird Protection . . . 13 



Part 11. Media'val Bird Ijtiws ... 24 



Part 111. Bird Nesting Boxes, witli 12 Figures 31 



Part IV. — Orders applying to Counties, etc., 



under Wild Birds Protection Acts 63 



Full-Page Collotype Illustrations. 



Plate i. — Where the Bulltincli Builds {frontispiece). 



Plate ii.— The Nuthatch's Nesting Box . 41 



Plate iii. — The Wren's Winter Shelter . . 47 



Plate iv. — The Spotted Flycatcher's Nesting 



Shelf 48 



Plate v. — The Redstart's Home in Dead Birch 



Tree Stump . . . . 51 



Plate vi. — The Great Tit's favourite Nesting 



Hole in Old Apple Tree . 52 



Plate vii.— The Starling's Box ... 54 



Plate viii. — The Blue Tit's Pump ... 56 



Plate ix. — Model Lodging Houses for Tits . 60 



( All from Photographs taken by Mr. Jacob Lowndes, 

 Chcadle, Staffordshire. ) 



