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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



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The Gkeen Woodpecker ........ 



The Noctule's Teeth ......... 



Three Female Noctules and their Young ..... 



The Male Kestrel Brooding ....... 



Newly Hatched Young Kestrels ....... 



A Meadow Pipit for the Young ....... 



A Young Crow .......... 



A Crow's Strange Nest Materials ...... 



Suspicion !............ 104 



The Sparrow-hawk — .......... 108 



{a) The family line-up for the meal. 



(b) At a later stage they feed themselves. 

 The Sparrow-hawk's Wild Eye . . . . . . . .112 



A Young Heron just hatched ........ 118 



A Heron's Nest ........... 118 



With her Yellow Eye fixed on the O.P. ...... 120 



Heron feeding her Young . . . . . . . . .124 



The Sniping Position — ......... 132 



(a) The swallow's nest. 



(b) The view through the loophole. 



The Nest of the St. Eloi Golden Oriole . . . . . .134 



Rooks under Fire ........... 134 



The " Scruff " of the Young Stoat ... . . 140 



From the Stoat's Larder ..... . . 140 



