LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



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Red-necked Phalarope. {Photographed hy Mis.s 



M. D. Haviland).— Plate 1 facing 1 



Strophe of Tawny Owl ... ... ... ... 5 



Stro^Dhe of Nightingale ... ... ... ... ... 6 



Strophe of Ween ... ... ... ... ... 7 



Red-necked Phalarope : " Swimming together in 

 a reed-grown creek." (Photographed by Miss 

 M. D. Haviland) 9 



Red-necked Phalarope : "In the long herbage at 

 the water-side." {Photographed by Miss M. D. 

 Haviland) ... ... ... ... ... ... 11 



Male Avocet preparing to settle on eggs. Female 

 going off to feed. {Photographed by Miss 

 M. G. S. Best).— Plate 2 facing 57 



Avocet approaching nest. {Photographed by Miss 



M. G. S. Best) 58 



Avocet turning her eggs before settling down on them. 



{Photographed by Miss M. G. S. Best) 59 



Male Avocet approaching female on nest. {Photo- 

 graphed by Miss M. G. S. Best) 60 



Avocet : Alarmed. " Kluit ! Kluit ! " {Photographed 



by Miss M. G. S. Best) 61 



Method of setting Snare for catching birds on the 



nest ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 65 



Gulls killed by a Storm. {Photographed by Dr. 



A. S. Robinson) 67 



Nesting-hole of Willow -Tit in a pole in a Hop- 



Garden in Kent ... ... ... ... ... 70 



Nesting-hole of Willow-Tit. {Photographed by 



H. H. Storey) 72 



