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Young Kittiwake Gulls Frontispiece 



Meadow Grasses Facing Page 42 



British Birds' Eggs 108 



Dragon Fly and Water Plants 252 



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I. Lieut.-General Sir R. S. S. Baden-Powell 

 II. Hedgehog— Stoat— Weasel in Winter . 



III. Sheep and Lambs .... 



IV. A Country Scene ..... 

 V. Primroses and Anemones 



VI. Mute Swans — Wild Duck in Farmyard — Young 



Rook — How many Chicks ? . 

 VII. An old Rat — Brown Rat — Dormouse . 

 VIII. A Kind Foster-mother (Cat and Rabbit) 

 IX. A Boy Scout Stalking .... 

 X. Life History of Speckled Wood Butterfly 

 XI. Three Larvae among Lichen — Spider Spinning — 



Insects on Leaves 

 XII. Frog Spawn — Young Frogs — Adder — Newts 

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