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CHAPTER VI 



The Study of Animal Life — 



I. Nature Study and Education — The Story of the 



Frog — The Value of studying Environment 

 II. The Clothing of Animals 



III. Protective Colouration and Form of Animals 



IV. Animal Locomotion .... 

 V. Capacity for Falling .... 



VI. The Flight of Insects, Mammals, and Flying Fish 

 VII. Animal Homesteads .... 

 VIII. Birds' Nests . . . . . 



IX. Birds' Eggs ..... 



X. Animal Voices ..... 

 XI. The Usefulness of Animals . . . 



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CHAPTER VII 



How TO STALK WiLD AnIMALS 



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CHAPTER VIII 



Wild Animals worth Stalking — 



I. The Badger 134 



II. The Fox ........ 140 



III. Red and Fallow Deer . . . . . .153 



IV. The Rabbit 166 



CHAPTER IX 



Birds: and how to observe them — 

 I. How to observe Birds 

 II. Bird-Nesting with a Camera 



III. London's Feathered Folk 



IV. Our Feathered Policemen 

 V. Some Birds I have met 



VI. Bird-Life in March 

 VII. Bird-Life in April 

 VIII. The Departure of our Summer Birds 



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