IV. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



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Black Tern : Covered with rain-drops. {Photo- 

 graphed by E. L. Turner) . . . . , . . . 122 



Black Tern. The male about to brood. {Photo- 

 graphed &)' E. L. Turner) . . , . , , . . 123 



Black Tern. AHghting with airy grace. {Photo- 

 graphed hy'E. L. Turner) . , . . . . . . 124 



Black Tern. Suspicious. {Photographed by E. L. 



Turner) . . . . , . , . . . . . 125 



Flock of Glossy Ibises in Cornwall. {Photographed by 



A.W.Boyd) 137 



Ruffs : On the qui vive. {Photographed by E. L. 



Turner) . , . , . . . . . . . . 147 



Ruffs : Preparing to waltz. {Photographed by E. L. 



Turner) . . . . . . . . , . . . 148 



Ruff and Reeve. {Photographed by E. L. Turner) 149 



Ruffs : A general melee. {Photographed by E. L. 



Turner) . , . . , . . . . . . , 150 



Ruffs : An intruder is driven away. {Photographed 



by E. L. Turner) . , . . . . . . . . 151 



Ruffs : An affair of honour. {Photographed by E. L. 



Turner) . . . . . , . . . . . . 152 



The Swan-mark of Sir Richard de Totesham circa 1370. 178 



AvocET. Meditation. {Photographed by E. L. Turner) 195 



An Avocet feeding. {Photographed by E. L. Turner) 197 



AvocET : Returning to the Nest. {Photographed by 



E. L. Turner) ,. .. .. .. .. 199 



AvoCET and newly hatched young. {Photographed by 



E. L. Turner) . . . . . . . . . . 201 



Tufted Ducks and Coots {Photographed by G. C. S. 



Ingram) . . . . . . . . . . , . 267 



Male Tufted Duck, after a dive {Photographed by 



G. C. S. Ingram) ... . . . . . . . . 267 



Female Scaup Duck, and her attendant Coots. 



{Photographed by G. C. S. Ingram) .. ,. 268 



