LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



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Thk Rabbit's Conteibution {see p. 144) .... Frontispiece 



A Battle in the Tkee-tops ......... 16 



The Rook 16 



Studies in Flight — ........•■ 20 



(a) A rook " banking." 



(b) " The throw-up " of the kestrel. 



The Rook with her Clamouring Family ...... 24 



The Young Buzzards .......... 28 



The Buzzard seizing his Prey ........ 28 



The Male Buzzard .......... 32 



The Merlin with Tail outspread ........ 36 



The Merlin pursuing her Quarry. ....... 40 



On the Plucking Stone. ......... 40 



The Long-eared Owl — .......... 46 



(a) Suspicious. 



(b) Thoroughly alarmed. 



A Long-eared Owl and her Single Youngster — .... 48 

 Young Long-ears Alarmed ...... . .48 



A Red Squirrel 50 



The Great Spotted Woodpecker ........ 52 



The Greater Spotted Woodpecker — ....... 56 



(a) On the wing. 



(b) Climbing. 



Studies of the Young Hobbies ........ 64 



The Little Owl — ........... 68 



(a) Mature. 



(6) Immature. ' 



All Clear 1 ............ 72 



Young Tawny Owls in a disused Magpie's Nest 74 



A Tawny leaving her Nesting Hole 74 



A Young Tawny 76 



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