VI. BRITISH BIRDS. 



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Green Woodpecker. {Photographed by Miss Turner) 



Plate 4. . . . . . . . . . . . facing 141 



Guarding the Entrance. [Photographed by Miss Turner) 144 



Old English Nesting Bottles 164 



Killdeer Plover, shot near Lydd, Kent . . . . 170 



" A Late Voyage to St. Kilda," by M. Martin. {Fac- 

 simile of Title Page) 177 



Sketch Map of St. Kilda 179 



Nest of Marsh- Warbler in Somerset . . . . . . 184 



Diagram showing the Down- tracks of Nestling Birds . . 187 



Nest of ScAUP-DucK. {Photographed by P. H. Bahr) . . 212 



Duck and Drake Scaup and Nesting Site. {Drawn by 



P. H. Bahr) 213 



The Duck Scaup coming off the Nest. {Drawn by 



P. H. Bahr) . . 215 



Nest of Tufted Duck in the same hollow as the 



Scaup's Nest. {Photographed by P. H. Bahr) . . 216 



Plate from Plot's " Natural History of Staffordshire," 

 showing the taking of young " Pewits." Plate 5. 



facing 220 



Pallas's Grasshopper- Warbler, picked up dead at 



the Rockabill Lighthouse (co. Dublin) . . . . 230 



Aquatic Warbler, Eastbourne, Sussex. (Drawn by 



E. C. Arnold) 236 



A Tame Snipe and its habits. Figs. 1-8 . . . . 250-8 



Thomas Pennant. {From the Ejigraving by J. Romney, 



after the Painting by T. Gainsborough) . . . . 265 



Diagrams illustrating the length of wings of the Green- 

 land and Common Wheatear . . . . . . 273 



Drawing illustrating amputation of Lapwing's toes by 



means of Wool . . . . . . . . . . 281 



Bulwer's Petrel, picked up near Winchelsea, Sussex 283 



" The Ornithology of Francis Willughby," by John 



Ray. {Facsimile of Title Page) Plate 6 . . facing 292 



John Ray. {From the Engraving by H. Meyer, after a 



Picture in the British Museum) . . . . . . 295 



Facsimile of Entry in Parish Register of John Ray's 



Baptism, and that of another John Ray . . . . 296 



