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Dabchick : Plate 5. Female on Nest, Dabchick 

 arriving. She rapidly covered her eggs, then stood 

 over them ready to receive the enemy : Plate 6. 

 On the alert : Plate 7. Female sitting, male 

 arriving : Plate 8. The change. Male on Nest, 

 female leaving : Plate 9. Male resting : Plate 10 



facing 153 



Migration of birds over the Mediterranean Sea. Chart 



AND Diagrams . . . . . . . . . . 173-6 



Nesting Hole of the Manx Shearwater. {Photo- 

 graphed by N. F. Ticehurst) . . . . . . . . 183 



Manx Shearwater. {Photographed by N. F. 



Ticehurst) . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 



Bardsey Island — North Face. Breeding Haunt of 

 Manx Shearwater. {Photographed by N. F. 

 Ticehurst) . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 



Herring-Gull. {Photographed by N. F. Ticehurst) 192 



Merlin : Locality " A." June ist, 1913. Nest on 

 summit of sand-hill in foreground. {Photographed 

 by G. C. S. Ingram) . . . . . . . . . . 203 



Merlin's Nest and Five Eggs at "A." May 21st, 



1916. {Photographed by G. C. S. Ingram) . . 204 



Merlin's Nest, Eggs and Young at " B." June 15th, 



1919. {Photographed by G. C. S. Ingram) . . 205 



Storm-Petrel with Young about 3 days old. {Photo- 

 graphed by Mrs. Gordon) . . . . . . . . 233 



Weather Chart for Morning of October 29th, 1919 . . 254 



Weather Chart for Morning of October 30th, 1919 . . 255 



Strange Nesting-Place of Coal-Tit . . . . 273 



Knot on Nest, Cape Sheridan, Grinnell Land. {Photo- 

 graphed by the late Rear-Admiral R. E. Peary) . . 279 



Breeding Ground of Knot, Cape Sheridan, Mount 

 Pullen in distance. {Photographed by the late 

 Rear-Admiral R. E. Peary) . . . . . . 280 



Nest and Eggs of Knot, Cape Sheridan. {Photo- 

 graphed by the late Rear-Admiral R. E. Peary) . . 281 



Nest of Common Gull, Dungeness, Kent, June 9th, 



1919. {Photographed by N. F. Ticehurst) . . 303 



Common Gull, Dungeness, Kent, June nth, 1919. 

 " She . . . shuifled down and sat." {Photo- 

 graphed by N. F. Ticehurst) . . . . . . 304 



Common Gull on the Nest, Dungeness, Kent, June 

 nth, 1919. " Panting with the heat." {Photo- 

 graphed by N. F. Ticehurst) . . . . . . 305 



