LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



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Rook : Male cawing clefiantly at passing Rooks. 



{Photogmphed by Stanley Crook) .. .. .. ii 



Rook : Male feeding female. {Photographed by 



Stanley Crook) . . . . . . . . . . 12 



Rook : Male and female feeding Young. {Pholo- 



gyaphed by Stanley Crook) . . . . . . 13 



Rook : Female enticing Young to leave the Nest . 



{Photographed by Stanley Crook) . . . . . . 14 



Ringed Plover : The male scraping out a new nest. 



{Photographed by T. Leslie Smith) . . . . 27 



Ringed Plover : The Female covering one egg. 



{Photographed by T. Leslie Smith) . . . . 28 



Ringed Plover : The male drawing the eggs into the 



new hollow. {Photographed by J.N. Douglas Smith) 29 

 Ringed Plover : The male brooding three eggs. 



{Photographed by J. N. Douglas Smith) .. .. 30 



Ringed Plover : The male digging out the eggs. 



{Photographed by T. Leslie Smith) . . . . 31 



Little Tern : Five days' old chick with sand-e'el. 



{Photographed by J. N. Douglas Smith) .. .. 52 



Little Tern : Six da\'s' old chick swallowing a sand- 

 eel. {Photographed by J. N. Douglas Smith.) .. 53 

 .\ Sixteenth Century Portrait of the Pheasant . . . . 68 



Hen Sparrow-Hawk crouching o\'er young a few 



hours old and a hatching egg : thus keeping off the 



sun. but not the air. {Photographed by J.tl. Owen) 75 

 A nser magellaniciis oi C]n?,m'> .. .. .. .. 10 1 



Mergiis americaniis of Clusius . . . . . . . . 103 



Anser magellaniciis seu Penguinis of Wormius . . 105 



Whitethroats impaled on thorn by Red-bticked 



Shrike no 



Merlin: Fig. i. View Irom the nest. Men 



ap])roaching. {Photographed by W . Ro\\"d.n.) .. 125 

 Mhklin : Fig. 2. .\ typical " Merlin boulder." 



{Photographed hy \V. Rowan.) .. .. .. 127 



Mj':klin : Fig. 3. A moimd of earth used as a perch 



instead of a boulder. {Photographed by W. Rowan) 1 2() 

 .\ H.\WFINCH. From Charleton's Onomasticon Zoicon 162 

 A Crossbill. From Charleton's Onomasticon Zoicon 164 

 A Hoopoe. From Charleton's Onomasticon Zoicon . . 166 

 Whooper Swan and Nest in the West Highlands, Scot- 

 land, May, iq2i. {Photographed by 'Sirs. Gordon) 171 

 Sketch-map showing breeding-range of Turnstone and 



Grey Phalarope .. .. .. .. .. 173 



