List of Plates.



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LIST OF PLATES.



* The Asterisk denotes a Coloured Plate.


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* Red-headed Titmouse (CEgithalisus erythrocephalus ) ... ... 23


Little Tobago, West Indies ... ... ... ... 35


Tropical Vegetation on Little Tobago, West Indies ... . . 38


Oyster Catcher on Nest ... ... ... ... 45


Oyster Catcher approaching its eggs ... ... ... 47


South African Ground Hornbill (Bucorax cafer) and Black


Hornbill (Sphagolobus atratus ) ... ... ... 57


Willow Wren with Nestlings ... ... ... ... 71


The English Starling ... ... ... ... ... 85


* Himalayan Yellow-backed Sunbird ( CEtliopyga seherice) ... 89


Meadow Pipit ... ... ... ... ... 105


Whitethroat Warbler on nest ... ... ... ... 107


Four Rare Exhibits at the L.C.B.A. Show, Nov. 1913 ... 118


Display of the Sun Bittern (Eurypyga helias ) ... ... 121


Celebean Ground-Thrush ( Geociclila erythronota ) ... ... 137


* Australian Green-wing Dove ( Glialcopliaps chrysochlora) ... 149


Golden-Eyed Ducks ( Clangula glaucion ) ... ... ... 160


Sheldrake (Tadorna cornuta ) ... ... ... ... 161


The New Bird House in the Amsterdam Zoological Gardens 167


Amsterdam Zoological Gardens : Cage in Old Bird Gallery ... 168


* Egg-laying and Nesting Experiences ... ... ... 179


Young Green-winged Doves ... ... ... ... 194


Reed Warbler on Nest ... ... ... ... 199


Reed Warbler by its Nest ... ... ... ... 200


Reed Warblers and Young ... ... ... ... 201


Reed Warblers feeding Nestlings ... ... ... ... 202


Cranes at Brinsop Court ... ... ... ... 203


Brinsop Court, South Front and West Front ... ... 204


Indian Shamah (Kittacincla macrura ) ... ... ... 221


Indian Shamah ( Kittacincla macrura) ... ... ... 222


Male Redstart carrying food to its Nestlings ( Ruticilla phcenicurus) 224


Female Redstart at entrance to nest ... ... ... 226


* Amethyst Sunbird (Cinnyris amethystinus) ... ... ... 231


Crowned Cranes ( Balearica regulorum ) ... ... ... 233


Nest and Eggs of Crowned Crane, and Young Crowned Crane 234

Stanley Crane (Anthropoides paradisea) ... ... ... 235


Young Crowned Crane and Crowned Crane (Balearica pavonina) 236



